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Welcome back to the Adam Schaefter podcast as we begin to look ahead to week 12.

12.

That feels like almost three quarters of the season, which is amazing to get us to look ahead and to look back on the tremendous week 11.

We welcome the coach of the Pat McAfee show, my friend, my colleague, Ty Schmitt,

to help us along on this week's six-back. Thank you very much, Chefty. Good to be with you,

as always. Hey, we talked about it on Thursday, and boy, you know, that slate did not disappoint.

You know, maybe it's recency bias, but it's tough to think of another week, you know, in the last, definitely this season that had more exciting games in every window.

It seems like every marquee matchup that we had pretty much went down to the wire.

And you mentioned it there, week 12.

God, it's unbelievable that next week is already, but Thanksgiving. What did that happen? I know. It's, it's ridiculous. But here we are. And now, you know, I feel like we say this every week, but it's same, same thing. Every week that is in the rear view, we know more about these teams. We get a clear picture of who might

be in the playoffs. So let's go. I mean, this is the best time of the year. With that in mind,

Shepdy, let's get right into it. Let's get the topic one of this week's six pack. I just said it.

Incredible weekend of games. Incredible weekend. If you had to kind of boil that all down to a theme of the weekend, what would that be?

Ty, I think we live in this dynamic offensive age. We live in this day and age where people crave fantasy production.

And the league wants points and scoring. And that's what drives ratings and helps fuels the popularity

of the sport. I get all that. But I think in the end, the thing that stands out to me after a

telling weekend, still, and it's an age-old tale, is the importance of defense. Think about the Denver Broncos against the Kansas City

Chiefs. The Broncos are playing without the reigning defensive player of the year, Patrick

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