Francesa Football Friday: Wild Card Preview
The Mike Francesa Podcast
BetRivers Network
4.6 • 938 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Mike Francesa podcast on the Bet Rivers Network. |
| 0:04.0 | Hello again, everybody, and welcome to the Mike Francesa podcast, part of the Bet Rivers Network. |
| 0:08.3 | We come to you on this football Friday program. |
| 0:12.2 | Wildcard weekend, two games on Saturday, three games on Sunday, and then the Houston |
| 0:20.1 | Pittsburgh game on Monday night to culminate the |
| 0:23.2 | weekend buys for the two number one seeds, which are number one seeds that are not prototypical number |
| 0:33.3 | one seeds, meaning that there's more doubt about them than normal because they haven't been |
| 0:38.0 | there. |
| 0:38.3 | They haven't done that. |
| 0:39.4 | They don't have the usual, you know, the usual cachet that a number one seed would |
| 0:45.7 | have, like a Kansas City would have, or the Ravens would have as an example on a given year. |
| 0:52.1 | So that's, of course, Seattle and the NFC and Sean Payton and Denver in the AFC. |
| 1:01.1 | Now, I've posed this question a lot. |
| 1:04.6 | Would you rather have, you have to take both, would you take teams that are going to have to play on the road that have big-time |
| 1:13.9 | quarterbacks, the bills with the best quarterback in action, the only one of this, |
| 1:23.8 | one that's a real, you know, first echelon. |
| 1:28.3 | Steph is close to that first echelon. |
| 1:30.8 | He's the number two quarterback. |
| 1:32.2 | He's the MVP this year. |
| 1:33.8 | So if you want to include him, okay. |
| 1:36.2 | But he would be after Burrow and after Lamar and after Mahomes and obviously Josh. |
| 1:45.2 | After that, you have a lot of questions at quarterback, guys who have had resurgence, |
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