This is the Athletic Football Show.

The divisional round of the NFL playoffs are here, and we are here on the Athletic Fantasy Football Podcast and the Athletic Football Show to get you ready for this weekend's games from a betting perspective.

I am Michael Beller, your host, joined as always by Vic Tafer.

Vic, how you doing today?

Good, bud. How you doing?

I'm doing well. I'm excited for this weekend. Last weekend lived up to the billing, right? Our first six-game playoff weekend in the NFL, and it was a lot of fun. Back to the usual four games that we have been accustomed to for quite a while now. And I'm looking forward to it. But before we can look forward to it, let's just take a quick look back last weekend. What did you take away from last weekend from a betting perspective? Did any team open your eyes? Who were you most impressed with? Are you taking anything from last week and applying it to this week? Yeah, I was going to say, first off, that was a lot of football.

It was. Yeah. It was. That's quite a total. But my biggest takeaways were the Ravens. I remembered back when we talked before the season about how much I liked them and their roster and where they were built. And they definitely impressed me the way they bounced back against the Titans. a team that's had a number in the last couple of years.

That was an impressive win, both defensively and offensively. I'm actually going to change my mind this week because of it. So for me, the biggest takeaway was the Ravens. Yeah, 10-0-0 they got down in that game. And I was on the Titans last week. That was one of the games I picked incorrectly, and I was feeling very good after Tennessee got up 10-0.

And then from there, on, it was just a completely dominant performance by the Ravens.

They ended up outscoring the Titans 20 to 3 from that point forward.

And even though the Titans had multiple bites at it, right,

they had the bizarre punt by Mike Frable down by four points from Baltimore's 40 on a fourth and two with 10 minutes left in the fourth quarter.

They were only down four points at that time.

Then they got the ball back, down seven.

Technically, they were never anywhere close to being out of that game.

But once the Ravens took the lead, it felt as though they had total control of that game.

That's going to be a fun one we've got this week, Buffalo and Baltimore, one of our couple of games on Saturday. You had four and two a week ago, so congratulations to you. Off to a hot start. I went

three and three last week, so a little bit ahead of me in terms of that. Those are our absolute

picks again. As we run through these games, we're going to make picks on every single game,

not necessarily playing them for real by putting money down on them. We're here to talk about

the games, talk them through, help guide your decision-making processes over the rest of the

weekend, over the weekend, and we'll let you know which games we're actually going to play

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