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Welcome to the athletic football show.

I'm Robert Mays.

Joining me today, my good friend Nate Tyson.

How you doing, buddy? I'm doing very well. We have a new addition to our family and apparently new intro music for our podcast for the YouTube show. That was pretty, we got some beats happening every single week. I'm kind of like, I'm puzzledly surprised, but no, I'm doing very, very well funny because last week when the first song kicked in, I was like, I kind of missed the beats. And then the second one kicked out. I was like, everyone has redeemed themselves. We're all good. I'm very into this now. Hey, it was great. Congratulations. Thank you. I'm so happy for you and Lauren. I'm so happy for your family. I am very excited to meet little Jack at some point. I'm a podcast

uncle. for you and Lauren. I'm so happy for your family. I am very excited to meet little Jack at some point.

I'm a podcast uncle. He is a member of the athletic football show family. The athletic football show family is much bigger now. And I'm very excited for you, but I'm also excited to have you back.

Oh, thank you, man. We are very excited. I really appreciate that. I honestly, and everyone that reached out on Twitter or elsewhere, really appreciate all the love you guys sent. I overwhelmed.

This is really the word. People say that. Like, oh, overwhelmed by the support and everything. I actually was. So I really appreciate everybody.

And especially you, my man. I'm very excited to be back though uh watching film while

uh feeding my new board son last night was something i'm gonna have to get used to so that's

that's something we're we're all evolving with the with the season and the new times

we got a lot to dig into today we're going to talk about mac jones and

zack wilson playing against each other this week with the Jets and the Patriots. Dig into Washington a little bit. We haven't really talked about the Washington football team at all, but they strung together a couple wins, went back and watched the Eagles game, thought there was a lot to chew on there. We're going to discuss what might be going on with the Eagles and the Bills, you know, two teams that were supposed to win their respective conferences, kind of cruise. They've hit a little bit of a speed bump. I think there's a lot to analyze and dig into there. But let's start with what I think is the game of the week, and that is the Vikings playing against the Cowboys. Vikings coming off a huge win against Buffalo last week. Cowboys,

a little bit of a letdown against the Packers team that has left us wanting so far this

season. This is a monstrous game in the NFC and in the NFC playoff race. The Vikings, if they

wins games like this and they can beat some teams where, I mean, they're not favored this

week, the Cowboys are favorite to win this game. They can win some games they're technically not supposed to win. The number one seed is there. The Eagle's schedule is incredibly easy, but the Vikings aren't exactly playing a bunch of world beaters down the stretch. So we'll see what happens with that. I think this is an important game for Dallas, just, again, to get a better sense of what they are offensively.

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