This is the athletic football show.

Welcome to the athletic football show.

I'm Robert Mays.

Joining me tonight.

It's my good friend, Nate Tyson.

Nate, how you doing, buddy? Doing well, the trifecta of nights.

We joined the NFL with this super wildcard weekend, and we get to see Troy Reader

lead the Rams to victory.

I was laughing so hard when he made that play. I was laughing so hard.

I was going to make a joke about it on Twitter.

It's like, you know what? Trying to be nicer. Not even a Troy Reader. Just, no. Putting that stuff out in the world, I always have reservations about it. It was mostly about you. And the fact that Troy Reader made a huge play in this game. You were the only person I could think about in that moment. I got tagged about three or four times.

It's about Troy Reader is a new guy now. Just keeps swimming with him. But it's, yeah, it's, it's, it's, uh, Kendrick Bourne. And it's Troy Reader now. He's one of my boys. For the wrong reasons. Yes. For the wrong reasons. But so one tie all time. We're going to talk about the Cardinals future a little bit later on this show. I think that coming out of that game, that's the most interesting aspect of this in my mind. But let's kind of just go through what that game was like. I mean, just an absolute beatdown from the first possession. You know, when we go through these games and one of the little sections that we kind of unofficially hit is, you know, when did it turn?

When did it turn? When did it feel like the game kind of flipped? This was, it felt like that the whole time. From the first time, the Rams scored into that second possession that the Cardinals had, it just felt like the Cardinals were on the run the entire game. And the Rams offensively, after that first drive, just pulling all the right levers at all the right times. Yeah, the fade ball felt like an exclamation point. Like just it really did. Here we go. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. It was like, oh, yeah, we, that was casual. Like, that's kind of what it felt like. It was like everything leading up to that and just staffer going exactly. It was like, yeah, we, that was casual. Like, that's kind of what it felt like.

It was like everything leading up to that and just staff were going exactly to the right spot with it. That's what it felt like. And this was the first time I've really, in a while, maybe since early in the season, that the Rams defense felt like they had speed. Like, they actually, like were playing fast. they were playing very assure of themselves, especially compared to last week against the 49ers.

And it was like, like they actually like were playing fast they were playing like very assure of themselves

especially compared to last week against the 49ers and it was like oh yeah this team has a

lot of good players they maybe not the safety position but they you know guys perform tonight

but it didn't matter tonight at all but it's like with this offense and just seeing the their big players make

big time plays, the Vaughn Miller, OBJ finally getting into the game. And that makes so much sense.

And it was just also seeing Kamakers in the run game like kind of exploding a little bit.

Seeing all the different ways that this team can attack you offensively defensively it's like

oh yeah this rams team they can make noise they could do stuff and yeah it looked really good

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