Kyler vs. Tua, the Saints maul the Buccaneers, Patrick Mahomes is a cheat code, choosing between the Falcons & Texans & more in our week 9 reaction
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🗓️ 9 November 2020
⏱️ 67 minutes
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The Athletic's Robert Mays and Nate Tice react to the biggest stories coming out of week 9 in the NFL like the Saints' dismantling of the Buccaneers, Patrick Mahomes' insane abilities, Josh Allen outlasting the Seahawks, the Ravens defense stepping up to stop the Colts, Kyler Murray and Tua Tagovailoa's shootout and much more. Plus the guys ask "Who would you rather coach next year...the Texans or Falcons?"
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| 0:00.0 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:18.4 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:18.9 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:20.0 | Joining me tonight. It's my good buddy, |
| 0:21.8 | Nate Tyson. Nate, how are you? Doing great. I texted this morning. I think we're about 15 minutes |
| 0:26.9 | into the morning games. And I just go, there's too many games. I felt that week one overwhelming feeling |
| 0:34.0 | that I just wanted to watch every game at once and take notes and and just |
| 0:38.5 | like have thoughts and tweets and but we settled in. I think all of us settled in and we |
| 0:43.4 | focus on a lot of good football today. Just a really enjoyable week. I mean, think that across |
| 0:49.2 | the board, I mean, the earliest slate was full of stuff. It was hard to keep track of everything |
| 0:52.6 | that was going on. There was one stretch where it was like, I can't even remember all the things that happened in like a 10 second period. It was in my fantasy league like four games swung in an instant. I was like, oh man, there's a lot happening right now. And then that afternoon slate, which we'll get to, just ton of interesting, noteworthy performances from |
| 1:11.8 | guys that we haven't seen a lot or we haven't seen at all to a certain degree, which I |
| 1:16.0 | definitely am excited to talk about. |
| 1:18.0 | Before we do any of that, though, I want to talk about the best team in the NFL. |
| 1:23.6 | And that's a conversation that's probably changed a few different times over the last month. |
| 1:29.4 | And I'm as guilty of this as anyone. I love whatever's new and kind of hemming and hoeing |
| 1:35.4 | over who's really the best team and who's falling, who's rising, all of that stuff. I trust me, |
| 1:41.0 | I get enamored with all the things that we've never seen before and all the teams we've never seen before. And the reason I bring this up is that I think a couple weeks ago, people probably would have said the most complete team in the league was the Bucks. They're currently number one in the DVOA. They're a really good offensive team, a really good |
| 2:01.0 | defensive team. They're balanced, all that stuff. And they come out and get absolutely blown out |
| 2:07.4 | tonight by the New Orleans Saints. Not a lot of outcomes when this game could shock me because |
| 2:12.1 | I think that anything can happen when you're playing two teams that familiar with one other, |
| 2:15.6 | everything else. This was shocking to me. |
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