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This is the athletic football show.

Welcome back to the athletic football show.

This is Zach Kiefer, here to dig into week 15 across the NFL.

I thought the statement of the day came

yesterday in Orchard Park, New York, where the bills utterly embarrassed the Dallas Cowboys from the

opening kickoff. And it made me think of what Tim Graham, our bills writer, said a couple

weeks back on this show. If Buffalo can find its way into the playoffs, it's still a big if,

that's going to be a really scary team. We saw yesterday why that's true. The wild part is them winning the AFC East is very much not out of the question. If you don't agree, you've got to check out the Dolphins schedule the rest of the way. That could be a pivotal matchup week 18 in Miami between the bills and the dolphins. In the AFC South. we have a three-team tie at the top. The Jackwires have lost three in a row. They're eight and six. Same as the Colts, same as the Texans, who both won over the weekend with backup quarterbacks. Hell of a job this season by those two head coaches, Shane Steichen and Indy, D'emiko Ryans, and Houston. Another coach who's doing a great job is Kevin Stefanski, his Browns with Joe Flacco at quarterback, snuck out a win yesterday over the Bears to inch closer to the playoffs. The 49ers are the NFC's first 11-win team, and we've got a good one coming in San Francisco next week when the Ravens come to visit

both of the NFL's 2 11 win teams will play at Levi Stadium that right there could be a Super

Bowl preview but for this week's episode we're going to bounce around the west coast of sorts

we'll start in L.A. with Daniel Popper our Chargers beat rider eventful week out there they were pummeled 63 to 21 Thursday night in Las Vegas.

Everyone saw that.

Then they fired their head coach Brandon Staley and the GM Tom Telesco the following morning.

Really good conversation with Daniel about all the reasons that went into this.

Tons, tons of insight on Brandon Staley's coaching style, his personality, his approach,

and the flaws that he brought to the table as a head coach that eventually cost him his job.

Really good conversation with Daniel, as always, and it's going to be interesting to see if

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