Hour 2: Which NFC Contender Can Overcome Their Biggest Flaw?

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🗓️ 30 December 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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First Take resumes with flawed NFC contenders. (0:00) Then, which team has the best chance to pull off a CFP Quarterfinals upset? (13:40) Next, Jason McCourty lists his top 5 NFL teams. (24:00) Finally, the AFC North Title is on the line in week 18. It's another Harbaugh-Tomlin showdown, but this edition comes with higher stakes... (31:10) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.2	Bowl season rolling right along on ESPN and the ESPN app.
0:34.5	Coastal Carolina and Louisiana Tech Square off in the Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl
0:39.0	at 2 Eastern, then Tennessee will take on Illinois
0:41.2	in the Liberty Mutual Music City Bowl
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0:52.8	Back to the NFL, the Rams fell just shy of pulling off a huge comeback against the Falcons on
0:57.7	Monday night football down 21 at the half the Rams offense was able to bounce back from three
1:02.1	Matthew Stafford interceptions to tie the game at 24 but a responding falcons field goal left too
1:07.7	little too little of time in the clock as LA dropped the game 2724. So the Rams cannot win the NFC West, but they can still go as high as the five seat in the NFC with a win and a Seahawks win in week 18. Six of the seven playoff spots in the NFC are clinched. The other will be either the Panthers or the Bucks in the NFC South. Either the Niners or
1:27.6	Seahawks will get the top seed with either the Bears or the Eagles being seated second. So we just talked about this last block, how there's just like a little bit of chaos. There's not really a juggernaut right now in the entire NFL, but let alone in the NFC. Anyone can get got. It basically feels like every team has got a little bit of flaw. So which NFC contender has the best chance of overcoming their specific flaw this postseason? What do you think? For one, I think it's a lot of fun that we don't know who is going to be. Right. I'm picking one. I'm going with Seattle. And I would say their flaw is their offense. They haven't been able to run the ball. And there's some doubts about Sam Darnel and to believe that he's going to be able, not only in the playoffs, but in the game this weekend, to be able to run the ball and then there's some doubts about Sam Donald and to believe that he's
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