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🗓️ 17 January 2022
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The NFL playoffs kicked off on Saturday, and the Super Wild Card Weekend was memorable right from the jump, with Joe Burrow and the Bengals breaking their long playoff drought, Josh Allen putting on a flawless performance to beat the Patriots, and an unforgettable finish between the 49ers and Cowboys in Dallas. Today, The Athletic’s Arif Hasan joins us to break down the milestones, surprises and storylines to emerge during an exciting opening playoff weekend. Plus, senior writer Ed Bouchette offers his insights on Ben Roethlisberger at the end of an era in Pittsburgh.
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0:45.0 | The NFL playoffs kicked off on Saturday and the Super Wildcard weekend was pretty memorable right from the jump. |
1:16.0 | Today the Athletic Arig Hassan breaks down the milestones, surprises and storylines to emerge during an exciting opening playoff weekend. |
1:27.0 | Plus senior writer Ed Bouchette offers his insights on Ben Rathosberger at the end of an era in Pittsburgh. |
1:35.0 | From Wondering in the Athletic and Tiffany Oshinsky, it's Monday, January 17th and this is the lead. |
1:46.0 | So Arif, we had a weekend of walled wall football with five playoff games in two days. |
1:52.0 | Still another one coming up on Monday. How's your stamina doing? How are we holding up? Are you drinking plenty of fluids? |
1:58.0 | Yeah, I need to. I probably shouldn't have had so many monster energies really. But yeah, no, it's been it's been pretty fun. |
2:06.0 | Even the blowouts have had a lot to offer. I think for fans definitely. Well, we're going to start with Saturday and the first game we saw as you heard in our intro was exciting and brought a big milestone for Cincinnati. |
2:18.0 | We actually did an episode last week on the curse of Bo Jackson in this playoff drought for the Bengals and for a minute there, it looked like they were going to blow it again. |
2:29.0 | What were you thinking there in the final minutes? Oh, yeah, no, it's tough not to think about the history of the Bengals. The propensity they like give up the goose, especially in playoffs. |
2:37.0 | And we've seen a couple of Bengal squad consistently make the playoffs and not be able to get the job done. And so that was always in the back of my mind. |
2:45.0 | Obviously, for people more invested in the game since Eddie Bengals fans is at the front of their mind. But for me, I just thought that because the Bengals were so much of a better team, they demonstrated so much throughout the game. |
2:54.0 | For me, I had a little bit more confidence that they were going to be able to kind of pull this off. I mean, I've seen Joe burrow play a lot of football at this point. |
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