NFL Wild Card Sunday Recap: 49ers survive Cowboys, Chiefs & Bucs move on & Steelers, Cowboys & Eagles postmortem
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🗓️ 17 January 2022
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
After another day of crazy Wild Card action, Robert Mays and Nate Tice return to react to the biggest moments and game-swinging plays. How should 49ers fans feel about their Super Bowl chances after how they looked against the Cowboys? How should Cowboys fans feel going forward? Will the Bucs and Tom Brady make another run at a title? Can the Chiefs continue their impressive offensive output against the Bills? All that and more instant analysis following the Sunday games on another postgame Athletic Football Show.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:15.8 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:18.5 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:19.5 | Joining me today is my good friend Nate Tyson. Nate, how you doing, buddy? I'm Robert Mays. Join me today. It's my good friend Nate Tyson. |
| 0:21.5 | Nate, how you doing, buddy? I'm doing well. Today reminded you that it's number two versus number |
| 0:27.1 | seven seeds. That seven seeds exists in our playoffs now, that it's very much in the NBA when they have |
| 0:33.1 | those one versus eight matchups and you're like, we kind of know how this is going to go. That's what |
| 0:37.3 | these games kind of really felt like. It reminds you that seven scenes are in the playoffs. |
| 0:41.0 | It was a rough day in a lot of ways, right? We had two blowouts that really didn't feel close from |
| 0:45.5 | at some point in the second quarter. I will say, Chief Steelers game was worrying me for a second. |
| 0:52.5 | I, everything we said on Friday show about you guys picking the Steelers and about them |
| 0:57.8 | trying to cover 12 and a half. |
| 0:59.8 | I was like, oh, man, is this really going to be a game that we have to watch? |
| 1:02.4 | And then Patrick Mahomes took care of it for us. |
| 1:04.4 | It was a win-win. |
| 1:05.2 | It was a win-win. |
| 1:06.0 | The no-fly zone ended in a nuclear way, I should say. |
| 1:10.5 | And then also it was if some screwiness happened like at |
| 1:14.5 | the beginning, it really felt like the game started after the fumble return from T.J. Watt. |
| 1:19.0 | And then it was like, oh, they're like, oh, that's right. Oh, like pregame's over. We got to start |
| 1:24.4 | trying. So that's really what it felt like that like just really kind of slapped them in the face a little bit. We'll get to that game. We'll get to the Eagles Bucks game, but I want to start with the game of the day, the game that actually produced a lot of things that we can talk about here. Where do you want to start with the Cowboys Niners game? I feel like we have to start with some of the decisions that happen in the second half for the Cowboys. |
| 1:28.0 | I mean, right. |
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