It's the Mike Francesa podcast on the Bet Rivers Network.

Hello again, everybody, and welcome to the Mike Francesa podcast, part of the Bent Rivers Network.

And we join you for this football Friday for week 13, which is obviously a very special week in the NFL.

Everybody plays.

And if you're a football fan, if you're especially an NFL fan,

of which there are in this country amazingly, over a hundred million who would be categorized

as Arden fans, which is a phenomenal, phenomenal amount compared to any other sport.

But this is a special weekend. Thanksgiving, obviously, a very, very special holiday for everybody,

the American holiday. And it's about family. It's about football, and it's about food. That's

your weekend, and you got plenty. And I tell you, the NFL has done you right. They've not

done you right in prime time later in weekend. Okay, we'll get to that later. But they have done

you right on Thanksgiving. There is a lot to like around your

feast and your family. And God willing, everyone has a safe and healthy and prosperous Thanksgiving

and a happy one and gets where they need to get and gets there on time and gets there safely

and everything else now as i said i mean i've looked at this a long time ago uh always

look at the thanksgiving games early first thing i actually do when the schedule comes out um

good games and games that matter packers and the lions look at the three team race with the bears the Packers and the Lions.

Look at the three-team race with the Bears, the Packers, and the Lions.

Look at the vulnerabilities that the Lions have showed recently, far more than anybody thought.

Look at the offensive vulnerabilities that the Packers have showed.

You know, their offenses hit a miss, hit a miss, hit a miss.

Some weeks there, not there, not there. And right now, the Lions aren't protecting their

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