NFL Week 14 Recap with Ben Solak

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🗓️ 9 December 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

14 weeks into the 2024 NFL season, and the playoff picture is starting to come into focus. The Kansas City Chiefs, Buffalo Bills, Detroit Lions, and Philadelphia Eagles are in. And both the Minnesota Vikings and Pittsburgh Steelers are sure to punch their tickets to the postseason soon. In the NFC, the competition for the rest of the landscape is fierce, while in the AFC, all but one of the teams currently slated for the playoffs has more than a 90% chance of making it in. So today, Michele Steele and Ben Solak break down how the teams that are in got there, and what everyone else needs to do in order to have a shot. You can honor Jim Valvano and support ESPN’s V Week with a donation to the V Foundation for Cancer Research. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, Michelle Steele here sitting in the host chair today.
0:06.2	And before we start the show, one note I want to share is that across all of ESPN right now, it is V-week.
0:14.0	This is something we do every year to honor our teammate Jim Valvano by supporting the V Foundation for Cancer Research, the foundation that he announced
0:22.5	in his iconic SB speech so many years ago.
0:26.1	Don't give up.
0:27.4	Don't ever give up.
0:29.2	And that's what I'm going to try to do.
0:30.6	Every minute that I have left.
0:33.1	While lots of things have changed in the 30 years since that SB speech, the need for
0:37.3	cancer research
0:38.3	hasn't. When you give to the V Foundation, 100% of your donation goes directly to research,
0:45.5	making the dream of victory over cancer more possible every single day. If you're able,
0:51.5	we hope that you'll donate. Go to v.org slash donate now and help support the critical
0:57.1	work of the V Foundation for Cancer Research. Thank you. Now on with the show. Ben Solock, our football
1:07.5	Sunday actually began with the 12-team college football playoff field being announced on, yes, ESPN.
1:13.7	So in honor of the college game, getting their playoff bracket set, let's take a closer look at the playoff picture in the National Football League.
1:21.5	We do know, you know, you're in Michigan, you're there.
1:23.7	The Lions have clinched a postseason birth, the chiefs and the bills as well, and
1:29.4	the Eagles. The Eagles join. Yes, yes. I mean, in the words of the Eagles fight song, right?
1:35.8	A fly, Eagles fly, I believe that is the line, right?
1:41.6	My six-month-old daughter has about 16 different onesies that say some iteration of fly Eagles fly on it, getting prepared for her life in Eagles fandom.
1:48.9	Oh, oh, man.
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