NFL Divisional Round Sunday preview & picks
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🗓️ 21 January 2022
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Robert Mays and Nate Tice continue their NFL Divisional Round coverage with a full preview of Sunday’s games. They start by breaking down the matchup between the Rams and Buccaneers. They examine each side of the ball and discuss the injuries that could play a big role in the game. Next, they dive into Bills at Chiefs. They discuss how this game is different from the last time these two teams played, their expectations for Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes and much more. They close things out with their picks against the spread.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:15.4 | The Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:17.7 | The Athletic Football Show is presented by State Farm. |
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| 0:38.1 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. Today's Friday, January 21st. I'm Robert Mays. Joining me today is my good friend Nate Tyson. How you doing, buddy? Two parts. I'm loving this. I love it because we get to spread our wings. We get to actually talk about these things. |
| 0:55.0 | And we're not just like one of us, usually me, starts rambling. And you're like, okay, okay, next one. Next one. I had to get to the next game. This is great because we actually get to dive into all these angles. You said it yesterday. It is the best weekend. Like all these games are awesome. Like even just going over, I'm like, there's so many cool, |
| 1:00.5 | like, little meta storylines and matchups that are just to be so, like, fired up about. |
| 1:06.2 | This is it. This weekend is football paradise. There's no reason not to lean into it. We might as well. I mean, I even putting together kind of the last finishing bits of my outline of my notes this morning, I was like, this is great. Like, I just am so excited. And there's so many aspects of this that are going to be so fun to dig into. So, Sheal, unfortunately, is not feeling well. So he is not going to join us for picks this week. We still have his picks. So we will run through those very quickly |
| 1:28.2 | at the end of this. Spoiler alert, you're in deep shit. Yeah. When it comes to the season |
| 1:34.1 | long competition. But we have a lot to dig into before that. Let's start with Rams bucks. |
| 1:41.3 | And when we kind of intro these games, I just kind of like to think about how we got here. |
| 1:46.0 | Where are we now? |
| 1:47.2 | What does this mean? |
| 1:48.5 | What's at stake for these teams? |
| 1:50.8 | And for the Rams especially, you know, they're going into this game. |
| 1:54.1 | And I don't want to lose sight of what this means to this team in this moment because you don't want to discount |
| 2:01.5 | how sustained success has been under McVeigh, right? |
| 2:05.3 | They've made the playoffs four times in five years. |
| 2:07.6 | They've been a very good team. |
| 2:08.9 | They deserve the benefit of the doubt when it comes to how much they can keep this up |
| 2:13.2 | and the core that they have built there with Donald and Ramsey and cup and woods and just |
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