I think that the holidays feel like frozen noses. I love walking with the dog for long periods of time.

Hopefully it's snowing and you've got to wrap up warm. So I think a frozen nose is a sweaty armpit

because your wrapped up so warm but then you're climbing hamps and heath and you get to the top

and you're like, and then you can see the breath but then your nose is still freezing to touch.

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This is the Athletics Football Show.

Welcome to the Athletics Football Show. Today's Thursday, August 4th.

I'm Robert Mays. A little bit later on the show today, Lindsey Jones.

It's going to be joining us. We're going to talk about the people in the NFL that we feel have the most to lose and gain in 2022.

So good to talk to Lindsey again. We actually got to sit down in person at her house outside of Denver.

Really enjoyed that conversation. Really excited for you guys to hear it.

Before we get to that though, I wanted to talk about the latest in the Dishon Watson case.

Before we started recording today, news came down that the league has appealed the six game suspension

that Judge Sue Al Robinson handed down earlier this week according to multiple sources.

The NFL is asking for an indefinite suspension with potential reinstatement after one year.

And depending on the length of that suspension, there's also some sort of monetary fine and counseling potentially involved.

Following the initial ruling on Monday, this always felt like a possibility.

The league made it well known in the weeks leading up to Robinson's decision that it wanted a suspension of at least the entire season.

In Robinson's report that accompanied the ruling on Monday, she said that Watson's behavior was predatory and egregious

and might deserve a harsher punishment than the one she was able to give based on the language of the league's own policy and the precedent set in previous cases.

And the way that I read that presentation of the ruling, it seemed like it left the door open for the league to step in

and potentially dull out a harsher punishment.

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