Lamar Jackson’s dominance, a test for the Cardinals’ defense and where does the WFT go from here with Nate Tice + Sheil Kapadia’s Week 6 picks
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🗓️ 15 October 2021
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Robert Mays and Nate Tice lead off this week’s “Friday Five” by talking about Lamar Jackson’s dominance this season as the Ravens take on the Chargers on Sunday. They also look at the matchups between the Cardinals’ defense and Browns’ offense as well as the Bears’ defense and Packers’ offense. Finally, after a perfect Week 5, Sheil Kapadia is back with his picks against the spread.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:14.5 | The athletic football show is presented by State Farm, because like a good neighbor, State Farm is there. |
| 0:20.3 | Get a quote today. |
| 0:21.9 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:24.4 | Today's Friday, October 15th. |
| 0:26.3 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:27.4 | Great show for you guys today. |
| 0:29.0 | As he does every single Friday, |
| 0:30.5 | Shookapati is going to be joining us a little bit later to do our week six picks. |
| 0:34.6 | Just a banner day for Shiel last week. |
| 0:37.2 | Got all three of them right plus his |
| 0:39.5 | lukewarm lock is given him a commanding lead over the man i'm thrilled to talk to you right now |
| 0:45.4 | Nate how you feeling after okay after i'm okay i'm okay i'm okay i how the turn tables how the |
| 0:53.3 | turn tables right and honestly mid game how the turntables, right? And honestly, midgame, how the turntables. |
| 0:57.6 | They're the one that we were, we were plus one minus one on. The two point swing one was like about three times I was ready to like hit them up and go, here we go. There we go. Just gain another one on you. I don't care about your lukewarm lock. But that's gambling. |
| 1:10.5 | If it was easy, |
| 1:11.6 | these casinos on the strip wouldn't be built where I live in Las Vegas. All right. We're going to |
| 1:17.2 | dig into our Friday five this week. Every Friday, we pick five things. Matchup, game player to |
| 1:23.3 | highlight, dig into. And we're going to start with a man who is absolutely red hot right now. |
| 1:29.1 | And that is Lamar Jackson going against Brandon Staley and the Chargers defense. |
| 1:33.6 | Lamar has been cooking over the last couple weeks. |
| 1:37.8 | Last two games, 10.3 completion percentage over expectation, completing 76% of his passes while averaging the highest average depth of target in the entire NFL. |
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