This is the athletic football show.

Welcome to the athletic football show.

I'm Robert Mays.

Joining me tonight. It's my good friend Nate Tice. Nate, how you doing, buddy? I think week 18 is a kinked up hose after we've had weeks of like, we're just like, we're shaming the NFL. We're like saying, oh, what a doldrum of games, all this. They just, it was a kinked up hose just waiting to explode week 18. That was, who, it had everything.

You do the, the, the, the, the Bill Hater, the Saturday Night Live thing, the, the

stuff on, like, that week had everything.

Really?

That game had everything.

That game, we just watched had everything.

I mean, oh, my God.

So much to dig into a little bit of a different format today.

Obviously, not as many games mattered.

So we're just going to kind of go through the games that did matter. We're going to talk about the Colts game, obviously. We're going to talk about the Niners Rams game and what that means. We're going to dig into the playoffs seatings, kind of sort of initial impressions that we have of those, some of the news that happened today. But we're going to start with the game that just finished. I mean, I've, it finished like 10 minutes ago. I'm still not cooled down. I'm still a little bit out of stories after watching that. I was watching it upstairs in my living room. And then the feed was choppy. So I was watching it downstairs in the basement while the TV upstairs was going.

I was like walking up and down the stairs, just pacing back and forth as all of these plays were

happening.

I mean, an absolutely insane game.

So let's get into all of it.

Let's start with how it ended.

Do you think, based on body language, what we've heard from Derek Carr,

everything else, if the Chargers had not taken a time out, do you feel like the Raiders would

have just run it into the line again, ended the game, and both of these teams would be going

to the playoffs? A part of me wants to say yes, because just reading how it was going, it really seemed like

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