This is the athletic football show.

Welcome to the athletic football show.

I'm Robert Mays.

Joining me tonight is my good friend Nate Tyson. Nate, how you doing, buddy? Doing well. I, uh, you know, enjoyed the holiday week and it was kind of funny. It's, I, Thanksgiving for me, like Thanksgiving and Christmas were always kind of screwy because my dad was a coach. So like those were like work days. So like Christmas sometimes was December 23rd. But also like last week, it's like all of a sudden it was just like the

sports week. I always forget. It's like, oh yeah, college basketball's back. And it's like college football. I was watching curling on Friday. It was like, yeah, it was a great sports week for me. It just kept it off with NFL Sunday. Yeah, it's now that I have an adult life and I have to travel to see my fiance's family and soon to be in-laws and we do this and I'm in Miami for

Thanksgiving. It's very weird. The fact that it's sunny and warm and I was out watching games today and it's almost December and I was way too hot. I had a buddy who was down here and we went out to watch games today and I was like, this is just disconcerting. This is just very strange. I'm never going to get used to this. Week 12? And so that part, I'm still getting used to. And then it kind of throws off how the rest of the schedule feels because now we're in the back half and it's almost December. So I'm going to go back today to a world and a place that's snowy and cold and terrible watching those games in Ann Arbor on Saturday. And then in Lambo today, I was like, that's what I'm going back to. I'm very ready for the snow and the cold. So you've seen Home Alone too, right? The back to New York. And it's like, yeah, I favorite. Yeah, of course. But it's, but I just,

I just picture you like the rain scene.

You know,

like they,

they shoot to the family and they're in Miami and it's just pouring

rain and then McCulley Cokin's just enjoying New York and everything.

You know,

so I just like I just had like a little snapshot of that like that like picturing you like that. I'm very full after the last few days.

So if I sound lethargic or tired, please forgive me.

But it was a really exciting day of games.

A lot of really good ones, some barn burners.

And a lot of those centralized in the NFC playoff race.

We have talked a lot about the AFC on this show over the last couple of months just because it's so cloudy and it's so hard to figure out how the pecking order should work.

In the NFC, it felt like we really understood that top trench of teams, right?

We have Cardinals, the Packers, the Rams, the Bucks, and then you could figure the rest

out later.

But now that's becoming a little bit more confusing.

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