This is the athletic football show.

Welcome to the athletic football show.

I'm Robert Mays.

Later in the show, Mark Chapman is going to join us from the Athletic UK. We had a really fun conversation about engaging with the NFL in Britain, and his history is a Bears fan, which I asked him why he would possibly do that. A lot of fun stuff coming with that. Before we do any of that, though, I am thrilled to welcome as I always do on Thursdays. Lindsay Jones from The Athletic.

Lindsay, how are you?

I am great. I'm, like, still riding the high for Monday night football. It was so fun. It was a really fun night. I had such a good time. And this is the greatest job in the world. I would never, ever complain about it. I feel lucky to do it every single day. but by week 14 you know most stuff

you know what the teams are

you know who's going to make the playoffs for the most part. Things are crystallized. And I was just ready for the postseason to start. It's like, let's fast forward three weeks. I'm ready to go. And then that game just gave me a jolt of energy that was fantastic. We had, that came had everything. It was like a Stefan Skash. It had poop jokes.

It had a great comeback. And then that game just gave me a jolt of energy that was fantastic. We had, that game had everything.

It was like a Stefan Skye. She had poop jokes. It had a great comeback. It had a ton of points. It had everything you could possibly want from an NFL primetime experience. Oh, I let my daughter stay up until almost 10 o'clock because she could not stop watching it and I could not stop watching it. and I got to teach her a lot of really interesting lessons about football,

but also stuff that, like like I couldn't explain. She was like, what is happening? And I was like, I don't know what's happening. It was so ridiculous. Did you engage with the Lamar pooping thing with your small child? Well, we did. But so the problem is so I watched on my phone so I can't actually be checking Twitter at the same time.

Gotcha.

So I was like going back and forth and I was like, I think his tummy hurts.

I think he's going to the bathroom.

But look, here he comes.

She is the only person for whom it would have been acceptable to be entertained by this idea.

But instead it was all 30 and 40-year-old media people and

sports writers on the internet having way more fun with it than they possibly should have.

But can we just before we move on to Week 15, which there's some really interesting stuff

in Week 15. We can agree that he pooped, right? Like, we can just say that that happened.

I think he would be the type of guy who would make a winking comment about it if he had,

but he was adamant that he didn't.

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