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

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

We come to you for this Football Friday show for week 14, which will be an enormous week in the National Football League.

There are a lot of tight races.

There are a lot of log jams as to who's going

to take control. You have some new faces at the top, as you know, the paths and the Broncos.

Obviously the Rams on the other side, but other teams they're contending to. So there are

five critical games that we'll get to.

Two of them are in prime time on Sunday and Monday, which is good because you get good games this week in slots.

Five critical games that will have a very big say.

And let's be honest, some games this week I think will move you or at least move me towards thinking a team is in or out based on what's ahead of their schedule, how many easy marks they have,

how many tough games they have left.

And, of course, you have the chiefs there with Andy saying they'll run the five and tickle

their fans' tonsils.

We'll see how that works out.

But really a very interesting week now.

Buy week late, mercifully for the Giants, who have had a very tough week in a lot of different ways.

But a week off for them after their awful performance against the Pats, the Pats get to take Bowers and a week off for them after their awful performance against the Pats.

The Pats get to take bowers and a week off, something that Vable will put to very good use.

If you are a contending team, a time off either in a Thanksgiving game or a buy this week, can be unbelievably positive for your team,

not only to get rests up the little nicks and bruises and beatings that everybody has

taken,

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