NFL Week 12: The Good, The Bad, and The Wide Receiver QB
The Lead
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🗓️ 30 November 2020
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Week 12 of the NFL season had some strange twists and turns -- even before play began. The Athletic’s Arif Hasan joins us to break down a strange weekend of action, including how the Vikings kept their playoff hopes alive (after starting the season 1-5), what’s going on with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' inconsistent offense, and how Bronco's rookie wide receiver and usual practice squad member Kendall Hinton did when he suited up for Denver at quarterback due to Covid concerns.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members, you can listen to the lead ad-free on Amazon Music. Download the app today. |
| 0:12.0 | Week 12 of the NFL season had some pretty strange twists and turns. |
| 0:19.0 | The Broncos have an enormous quarterback problem as in they don't have a quarterback available to play tomorrow. |
| 0:25.0 | Today, the Athletics Arif Hassan joins us to talk about how the once one in five Vikings kept their playoff hopes alive. |
| 0:32.0 | What's going on with Tampa Bay's offense right now? And what happened when rookie wide receiver Kendall Hinton suited up at quarterback for the Broncos? |
| 0:42.0 | I don't want to be too harsh on him. I feel so bad for him, but he did not play well. |
| 0:48.0 | From Wondery and the Athletic, I'm Anders Kelto. And I'm Kavita Davidson. It's Monday, November 30th, and this is the lead. |
| 0:59.0 | It felt like something great was happening. |
| 1:03.0 | There was just something about the emotion and the moment you know the first and first. |
| 1:07.0 | The failures of the past don't matter because we've got this now. |
| 1:10.0 | Are you okay, babe? |
| 1:11.0 | I've never seen anything like that. |
| 1:13.0 | This isn't a story where the interview the athlete will hold. It stays with you. |
| 1:23.0 | Alright, so Arif week 12 got off to a weird start before the Sunday games even began. |
| 1:28.0 | It was revealed that all four Denver Broncos quarterbacks were ruled out of their game against the Saints because of COVID concerns. |
| 1:36.0 | First of all, can you ever remember something like this happening in the NFL before a team literally having no quarterbacks available? |
| 1:44.0 | I mean, there are situations that seem kind of close like the Vikings, for example, I had to play Joe Webb, who they originally drafted to be wide receiver, |
| 1:51.0 | but was a quarterback was in quarterback meeting rooms participated with the second team offense. |
| 1:56.0 | So quarterback for all intensive purposes, you know, he was forced to start a playoff game against Green Bay and that didn't go very well either. |
| 2:02.0 | And so yeah, I can't recall like a ton of other scenarios like this. |
| 2:07.0 | Well, so how did the Broncos end up in this situation? |
| 2:11.0 | Well, the NFL and NFL P.A. are still investigating the full details of that, but one quarterback ended up testing positive for COVID-19. |
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