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Welcome to the Athletic Football Show.

Today's Friday, October 22nd.

I'm Robert Mays.

Fun show for you guys today.

Shookapati is going to be joining us a little bit later for our weekly pick segment

that includes Nate wearing rubber dog mask the entire time, which never a sentence I thought

I would utter.

When you agreed to do this show with me last year in like August of 2020 did you ever think that this would be your fate no I didn't even think I was like the fact that he's like oh we're doing more than one show like doing a weekly show and then all top of that it's like oh we're doing picks now oh great shields copping did's like, oh, yeah, what can happen? I hit my first lukewarm lock. It's like, what's the worst

that can happen? I'm going to hit all these. Like, this is my lock. That's why I'm giving it to you. And it's like, second one quarter in. I was already like, oh, no. If the people in charge of this company ever start listening to this podcast. We are seriously screwed.

Seeing the spirit tape on it that was amazing seeing the box it's spirit i didn't tell you it was coming

so i i as soon as they were losing i i bought the mask the dog so the browns were your lukewarm

walk people who are not on on this here so obviously the browns famously have a group of fans that wear dog masks. So I was like, all right, this is easy. This one's right in front of me. So I bought, I was searching the internet, found one from the Spirit Halloween store, and overnighted it to you and did not tell you it was coming. So you got a package on Wednesday for me, and that's what it was. It was just a rubber dog mask that you did not know was hitting your mouth. First thing I saw was Spirit Halloween tape. And I was like, oh, did my wife order us like Halloween outfits? Like that I don't remember we were talking about. And then I saw it, I was like, oh, you got to be kidding me. I appreciate you.

All right.

As we do every single Friday, we are doing the Friday 5.

We pick five players, matchups, games that we wanted to dig into.

Not a great week, if we're being honest with each other?

I mean, obviously some of the biggest lines that you're going to see in week 7, we talked about that a little bit during the pick segment.

We got two touchdown favorites this week.

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