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Welcome to the athletic football show.

Great show for you guys today.

My buddy and our Chiefs writer, Nate Taylor,

is going to be joining us a little bit later to do our chiefs team visit. Very excited about that. Before we do that, though, I wanted to dig through some of the headlines in the NFL this week, whether that's Deshawn Watson, the coaching carousel. And we just happened to have someone on staff who has written about all of these issues recently. And that is Mike Sando. Mike, how are you doing, man? I'm doing well, Robert. How are you? I'm doing good. We're just off of divisional weekend. We're doing this on Monday, which is a day earlier than we typically do it. Monday is I typically spend in a haze the entire day because I've been up usually like 2.30 in the morning on a high from doing the Sunday night show. But we did a little earlier last night. I still didn't get to bed until 2.30 in the morning. So that's always how it goes. I'm with you, but my brain is less frazzled with fewer games. I have such a hard time. I marvel at you on your show your show because you're like on that third and seven in

the Buffalo Tennessee game in week four. And I'm like, how does he know this? How does he know this? You know, and with fewer games, I don't know, maybe I just have to focus on a smaller number of things, but the fewer games thing helps me keep track of what the hell happened this week, you know? So here's my problem.

And I honestly, if I'm being frank, I thought I did a terrible job on the Sunday night show this week because I was just getting so deep into the weeds with certain things. There was no structure to it. I went back and listened. I was like, you were a terrible podcast host. But the problem is that with the Saturday Sunday setup, right? So I watched the Saturday games.

I was at the Packer game.

And then Sunday I wake up.

And by the time I started to rewatch,

the All-22 is out for the Packers game.

So I was like, oh, now I can watch every play twice from two angles.

So then the prep starts going totally off the rails

where usually I just have the 45 minute

condense version.

And then I was behind on my prep. And then I couldn't pare down my notes to have a structure for the show. And then everything just starts to get totally away from me. So that's what happened on the show. If everyone was wondering, why are you so bad at this? That was the reason why. I noticed like the data comes in faster to our little search tools and stuff too with a fewer number of games. I was like, ooh, this stuff's in there.

Like some coverage stuff was in there. I was like, okay, I'll take a look at this. So there's not a

shortage of information, that's for sure. We are too supremely weird people. And I hope that

appreciate that. So today, we're just going to get into some of the news. Obviously, the games have been hugely important, but we've got a lot of time to talk about the two conference championship games over the course of the week. We'll do that with Lindsay and Nate on tomorrow's show. But the news has been pretty much nonstop over the last several days, and we haven't gotten to any of it because a lot of it is broken since we recorded our last Thursday show.

So let's start with a topic that you've discussed last week on The Athletic and what I really

want to dig into here, and that's Deshaun Watson.

It feels like a new blockbuster bit of information comes out about this every 10 minutes

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