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This is the athletic football shows K Kiefer and the Beats.

Welcome back to the athletic football show and happy new year out there to everybody.

This is Zach Kiefer here to dig into week 17 across the NFL as we inch a little bit into 2024 and get closer to the playoffs.

One more week of the regular season and then the fun really starts.

Awesome show today.

Three great conversations with our beat writers from around the country.

Good to be back.

And we will start.

Of all places, Cleveland, Ohio, with the NFL's best story.

The Joe Flacco experience continues to defy belief and comprehension, for that matter.

So we'll dig in with our Brown's beat writer, Zach Jackson, on how and why this is all happening.

The Browns have won four straight. They've clinched the five seed in the AFC playoff picture. This is wild. And why does Kevin Cofansky's offense work so much better with Flacco than it did with Deshawn Watson? Can they bring Flacco back next season as a backup? Can they afford not to? and who's their best matchup in a first round playoff game. We'll get into all that with Zach.

And then from there, we'll season as a backup. Can they afford not to? And who's their best matchup in a first round

playoff game? We'll get into all that with Zach. And then from there, we'll stay in the

AFC North and we'll head to Baltimore, where the best team in football is playing. The Ravens

for the second straight week absolutely annihilated a Super Bowl contender, 56 to 19 over the

Dolphins yesterday. Now, beyond John Harbaugh, who's done an incredible job, they got 19 over the Dolphins yesterday.

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