JJ Watt retires & Wild Card Threat Index with Benjamin Solak
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🗓️ 28 December 2022
⏱️ 84 minutes
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How scared should we be of some of the teams competing in the Wild Card race? Do any of them have legit chances? The Ringer's Benjamin Solak joins Robert Mays as they each rank the teams in order of level of threat, plus they reminisce on JJ Watt's retirement from the NFL.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:05.3 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:17.7 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:19.0 | Joining me today from the ringer, one of our old |
| 0:22.1 | friends. Ben, Souleck, Ben, thanks for doing this, man. It always feels so weird to hear to do the intro at 1x speed. So whenever I'm listening, it's a 2x speed. You're a psychopath. I'm a little football show. I'm your host, Robert Mays, and it's so much slower now. I don't understand and how people listen to 2x to anything. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm a 1X podcaster. |
| 0:20.8 | I don't understand how people listen at 2x to anything. I'm a 1x podcaster. |
| 0:40.0 | I don't go for efficiency. I respect the art of the medium too much. But the idea that anyone |
| 0:46.2 | would listen to me, my voice and the way that I talk and my cadence at 2x speed doesn't seem like |
| 0:52.7 | an enjoyable experience in the least. It seems awful. |
| 0:55.9 | I cannot believe you would willingly do that to yourself. I just wouldn't listen to the show. |
| 1:00.4 | If I had that little time, I'd just be like, it's not worth it. I'm not getting enough from this to make it worth my time. |
| 1:06.2 | It's not even like the same time thing. It's just I talk very fast. I was raised in an immigrant |
| 1:12.6 | family or everybody talks really fast. And to me, everybody else is talking slow. Let's give |
| 1:17.9 | it moving people, got places to do people to see. It's always funny when people tell me when |
| 1:22.4 | they listen on 1X or when they watch the YouTube channel because they're so used to |
| 1:25.7 | listen to on 1.5 that it just sounds like we're both very drunk. |
| 1:28.9 | Extremely wasted. It's very funny. I respect anybody that can do that. All right, we're going to do something today that I used to do while writing for one of our old colleagues, Ben Glickman, when he was my editor at the Ringer. I used to call it the Wild Card Threat Index. So when we get to Wild Card Weekend, I always thought it was fun to look at the teams |
| 1:46.9 | playing on Wild Card Weekend and try to figure out who was actually the biggest threat to |
| 1:52.7 | the contenders in the league. And we're gaming the system a little bit with this, okay? |
| 1:57.2 | By my crude calculations, there are about 22 teams that are still alive for the playoffs or have currently made the playoffs. |
| 2:06.6 | Of those 20, I'm not counting the Raiders who need like five million things to go right for them to make it. |
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