FRIDAY - Playoff positioning on the line in Week 17 2021

NFL: Move the Sticks with Daniel Jeremiah & Bucky Brooks

NFL

Sports, Football

4.7 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

The Dolphins suffering a big loss at the QB position (0:11) ahead of their game against the Bills. The Browns hit with more COVID-19 issues (0:46) and the Packers get some bad news about one of their star players (1:54). On the flip side, Washington gets an encouraging update on Alex Smith's injury (2:21) and Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy (3:34) happy to be playing meaningful football in December

Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.5	Guaranteed Human.
0:06.4	Happy New Year, everybody.
0:08.3	And we'll sub up.
0:09.2	Let's start your 2021 off right with the Good Morning Football Headlines from NFL Network.
0:14.9	Dolphins quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick testing positive for COVID-19 yesterday
0:19.5	and will miss Miami's must-win game against
0:22.4	bills.
0:23.4	Tua Tunga by law was already set to start Sunday, although head coach Brian Flores benched
0:28.5	Tua in the fourth quarter of last week's win at Las Vegas.
0:32.0	The NFL conducted contact tracing following Fitzpatrick's positive test and no other players
0:37.3	were identified as high-risk close contacts.
0:39.3	NFL Network and Saturday Ian Rapp report and Tom Pelliserra both reporting that Fitzpatrick could also miss wildcard weekend based on a 10-day quarantine.
0:50.3	Wow.
0:51.3	Well, meantime, the Browns also dealing with some COVID issues heading into their win and in week 17 game against its dealers.
0:58.8	Tom is reporting that two more positive tests came on Thursday, closed in a facility again.
1:04.9	Linebacker Malcolm Smith and Ted and Harrison Bryant testing positive for COVID-19.
1:09.7	On the plus side here for Cleveland, the club will get back for receivers, including Jarvis Landry.
1:15.6	In this last week's loss, the Jets, his close contacts, head coach Kevin Stefanski says
1:20.6	his team's adjusting to this new normal, kind of Sunday's game, against Pittsburgh.
1:25.6	I'm just really dealing with it day to day, hour by hour, in terms of what we have going on.
1:33.3	So we're in constant communication with the league, with our medical staff, and finding out what we can do.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from NFL, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of NFL and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.