NFL Wild Card Saturday Recap: Bengals & Bills advance & what's next for the Raiders & Patriots
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🗓️ 16 January 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Joe Burrow snaps the 31-year playoff drought in Cincinnati, Josh Allen leads the Bills to one of the most-impressive offensive performances in NFL history, and those are just a few of the talking points coming out of the NFL's Wild Card Saturday. Robert Mays and Nate Tice react to the action & what the wins mean in Buffalo and Cincinnati, where the Patriots and Raiders go from here with Derek Carr, Mac Jones expectations and more.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:15.6 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:19.2 | I'm Robert Mays and joining me tonight. |
| 0:21.4 | For real, my good friend, Nate Tice, Nate, how you doing, buddy? Again, it's good that the new Matrix movie is out because I'm jacked in. Ethernet cord is hooked up. I have a feeling a deja vu happening right now, you know, just a little bit. I'm glad everyone can see me a little clearer. I had to sacrifice camera quality for the live audience. |
| 0:19.0 | We'll take it. |
| 0:19.8 | We'll take it. |
| 0:20.4 | I can hear you |
| 0:41.2 | and you don't sound like a robot. So this is amazing. All right. Where did they dig into both |
| 0:46.0 | games happen today? And obviously we're going to start with an absolutely ridiculous performance |
| 0:50.6 | from the Buffalo Bills against the Patriots tonight. |
| 0:56.1 | I mean, not even an exaggeration. One of the greatest offensive performances in NFL history. |
| 0:59.6 | Aaron Schatz tweeted right before we started recording, |
| 1:02.1 | according to Football Outsiders DVOA, this is the second best DVOA game by an offense since 1983. |
| 1:09.5 | And it felt like it, right? |
| 1:11.0 | It felt like they could do whatever they wanted against one of the best |
| 1:14.9 | defenses in football. |
| 1:16.4 | And this version of Josh Allen is one of the scariest players, one of the three, |
| 1:20.8 | four scariest players in the entire league full stop. |
| 1:23.7 | It's how do you defend this if they're going to like, I mean, |
| 1:27.1 | the other stat football perspective had was that they're the first team to have no kicks and punts, no turnovers, no failed fourth down attempts for an entire game as well. |
| 1:36.1 | It's just it's no matter which way you shake it, this is one of the most incredible performances ever. |
| 1:40.4 | And when you're watching a quarterback like Josh Allen, who we already know his athletic talents and how big he is. I call him the ostrich because it looks like he's running like an ostrich when he's out in open space. But then all of a sudden he could just operate from the pocket now, just calmly dicing up like one of the best defenses in the league. And on top of that, create plays out of structure. It's just how do you stop it? Like when he's on, we are wondering if the week 16 performance if he could repeat it. Well, he repeated it and exceeded it in all different types of ways. That's what's just so much fun. Well, it was the blend, right? It was the exact type of plan that we wanted to see from that week 16 game where you have these moments where he's creating out of structure, but he's also making you pay underneath. |
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