NFL Week 16 preview | What next for Cousins? Can Lions overcome injuries? Will Mahomes be fit?

Inside The Huddle

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🗓️ 19 December 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Neil and Phoebe look ahead to the Week 16 action in the NFL with playoff spots and seedings up for grabs.

They discuss the benching of Kirk Cousins and what could be next for the veteran quarterback. Plus with injuries mounting for Detroit, can the Lions overcome their fitness issues? And will Patrick Mahomes lead the Kansas City Chiefs with doubts over his fitness?

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0:00.0	Go inside the huddle with Sky Sports.
0:11.6	Yes, hello, welcome to Inside the Huddle.
0:14.5	We are moving ever closer to the end of the NFL's regular season.
0:18.9	I'm here, your host, Neil Reynolds, with Phoebe Shector, on our Thursday edition of the podcast's regular season. I'm here your host, Neil Reynolds, with Phoebe Schachter,
0:21.9	on our Thursday edition of the podcast as we look ahead to week 16 in the NFL. And Phoebe,
0:29.6	the games now have so much meaning for not every team, but certainly for the teams at the top
0:36.7	of the seedings.
0:42.2	Yeah, I mean, they're all battling it out for some of them trying to get that first round by.
0:46.2	I mean, but that's what made these games so great, starting from last week. The fact that we only have a couple of games left, it's crazy, I don't want it to end.
0:51.1	I want the regular season to go on forever where we have this amazing,
0:54.5	just playoff style football. It's been incredible this year.
0:58.7	It has been incredible. Yeah, it has. It really has been quite a lot of big games.
1:03.1	Just before we get into some news and week 16, we'd love your support, of course.
1:08.0	We've been nominated for the Sports Podcast Awards, Best American Football
1:11.7	Podcasts. So within the link of this podcast is how you can vote. Follow myself and Phoebe
1:17.2	on socials as well and you can vote there. We'd appreciate your support. But let's start with some
1:21.5	news then, Phoebe. Kurt Cousins, sad face, has been benched by the Atlanta Falcon, 14 games into his
1:30.8	career with them after being given $100 million guaranteed in the off season.
1:37.6	I don't think any of us are surprised.
1:39.6	Even Kirk said he needed to do better, didn't he?
1:42.5	Yeah, and ultimately you have to look at the numbers,
1:45.2	right? It's one to nine touchdowns to interception ratio over the last five starts. And you just
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