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Hello again everybody and welcome to the Mike Francesa podcast, part of the BetRivers Network.

And we come to you as we get ready for championship Sunday.

Three more games left in this NFL season.

The weather will not be the factor that it could be considering what's going on around the country.

It's not going to impact these games on any historic or any crazy level, despite the fact we have, you know, middle of the country temperatures at 10 below zero,

temperatures in the east at zero or five above in wind chills minus 10.

So we could wind up with crazy weather.

We didn't get it in either of the places that will play this weekend, Denver and Seattle.

Right now, New England, for the most part, a four and a half point to five slash five point

favorite because of the situation with Denver having to go to the backup quarterback

in Stidham, who hasn't played in a long time, but obviously

has been in Denver for two years and has obviously spent the entire week as the number one

quarterback.

So it's not like he's been thrown in with no reps or nothing.

He's had a whole week to prepare and he's had Sean in his ear for an entire week. And obviously,

they feel he will be somewhat prepared for the game. So much will revolve around the young

quarterbacks, having the backup quarterback and what that means historically.

And then having May in his first road playoff game.

And that makes a difference because I can tell you this, folks.

There are – and I've been to almost everywhere in the NFL.

And I've been in a lot of the settings at playoff time.

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