Examining the parity of the 2021 NFL season with Mike Sando
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
The Athletic
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🗓️ 9 December 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Why has this NFL season felt so unpredictable? Where are all the elite teams? Robert Mays and Mike Sando examine why we are experiencing more parity than ever before across the league. They discuss what the numbers tell us, how the quarterbacks are playing a role, the increase in penalties and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:15.6 | The Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:17.8 | The Athletic Football Show is presented by State Farm. |
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| 0:21.1 | Welcome. The Athletic Football Show. Today is is there. Get a quote today. Welcome. |
| 0:21.9 | The Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:23.2 | Today is Wednesday, December 8th. I'm Robert Mays. Joining me today is my good friend, Mike Sando. Mike, how you doing, man? I am doing well in this, what is it? We into week 14? It can never tell anymore. At a certain point, it all starts to blend together, and we are firmly in that point. |
| 0:21.1 | When the weeks get into the point, it all starts to blend together, and we are firmly in that point. |
| 0:38.9 | When the weeks get into the teens, it's done for me until we get to week 16, 17, because |
| 0:44.7 | then my fantasy season is locked in, and I know that the end of the regular season is coming. |
| 0:49.7 | But week 12 through week 16, I'm absolutely worthless. |
| 0:53.5 | And we're adding a week 18. |
| 0:54.7 | Oh, it's just ridiculous. |
| 0:56.8 | Yeah, let's focus and put it together here. |
| 0:59.6 | We are trying to sort through all this stuff. |
| 1:01.6 | And we're going to try to sort through a lot today. |
| 1:03.9 | So these Wednesday shows, I like kind of stepping away from the schedule and thinking about the league in kind of a big picture way. |
| 1:10.3 | And one of the conversations that we've been having, everybody, over the last month, |
| 1:15.1 | over the last six weeks is, where are the elite teams in the NFL this year? |
| 1:20.2 | Doesn't it feel wide open in a way that it hasn't in years past? |
| 1:26.4 | And as we kept talking about us, |
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