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Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. Today's Friday, November 19th. I'm Robert Mays. Great show for you guys today. Shooka Pottie is going to be joining us a little bit later for our weekly pick segment. Before we do that, though, I'm thrilled to welcome my good friend. Nate Tice, Nate, how you doing, buddy?. Hi, this was an interesting slate of games to look at. Like, it's, I don't know how to feel about it. It's like moving week a little bit. That's kind of what it felt like. It was like a lot of teams are going on different spurts after this week. And maybe biweeks are happening. So maybe that's why it's interesting. But yeah, it's a weird feeling weak. I don't know if you feel the same.

I definitely do.

And especially in the A. weeks are happening. So maybe that's why it's interesting. But yeah, it's a weird feeling weak.

I don't know if you feel the same. I definitely do. And especially in the AFC race, we talked about a lot of those games yesterday with Lindsay. We're not going to talk about many of them today. We are going to do our Friday five. We're going to spend two of those items on the Chiefs and the Cowboys, so we're cheating a little bit. We're hit five things as they relate to week 11.

And let's start with that Chief's Cowboys game.

And let's start with when the Cowboys, so we're cheating a little bit. We're hit five things as they relate to Week 11. And let's start with that Chief's Cowboys game. And let's start with when the Cowboys have the ball. I went back and I watched a lot of the Falcons game. And I'm curious what you think about this. I think right now, even if they're not the most explosive, even if they're not the most exciting, which in a lot of ways, they are. I mean, DAC is leading the league in EPA per play now. They're the highest scoring offense in the league. But just beyond the fireworks, I think that Cowboys in this exact moment are the most interesting offense in the NFL. Like when I click on the tape every single week, it's like opening a present and not knowing what's going to be in there. It's like, ooh, what am I going to get this week? And it's always something different. And I just feel like that's where they are. Everything is so varied. Everything is so unique. There's so many different things that kind of catch your attention and catch your eye. I don't know how you feel, but that's what the sense I get when I watch them right now.

Everything they do makes sense. And that's the highest compliment I can give to any unit. It's just like, even if it might not be the best unit, at least what they do is sound or at least I get why they did it, but they are good and they have good players and everything they run is sound.

And what you're just saying too, it's like, it's interesting because you're like, oh, it's a different presence, a different little twist every week. None of it's gimmicky. And I think that's what I like. None of it is good old traditional ballplay. It is awesome. And they just run it extremely, extremely well. And I just love that. it's like they can run any type of concept in the run game or a pass game.

They go quick game, play action, deep shots. They can go

intermediate five step drop and everything looks good. Then they can run it and they have the weapon

for it. They have two guys that can do all that. It's like you are very, it's hard to play this team because they just do everything so well.

And they've got Trigger Man right now that's just playing like another worldly, otherworldly level at this point.

And that's the thing with it is everything operates on time.

We even talk about like with Mac Jones or something, but just good quarterbacks.

You always know the ball is going to the right spot.

So everything they draw, if you're running a sound you always know the ball is going to the right spot so

everything they draw if you're running a sound concept and then the quarterback's going to go to the right

spot every time it's like it's really hard to defend unless you do something like the broncos did

where a guy falls off where a guy you know you do it yeah but that's that's the extra level 301 level

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