Ranking the best teams after week 8, Mike White shocks the Bengals, the Saints top the Bucs & more with Nate Tice
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🗓️ 1 November 2021
⏱️ 67 minutes
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How do the best teams in the AFC and NFC rank at (basically) the halfway point of the season? Following a weird week 8, Nate Tice and Robert Mays discuss Mike White's huge day for the Jets over the Bengals, the Saints topping the Bucs, the curious conundrum of Baker Mayfield and the Browns' offense, Amari Cooper pulling the Cowboys past the Vikings and more week 8 reaction.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:15.8 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:18.3 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:19.3 | Joining me tonight. |
| 0:20.2 | It's my good friend Nate Tice. |
| 0:21.2 | Nate, |
| 0:21.2 | how you doing, |
| 0:21.6 | buddy? |
| 0:22.4 | I'm doing very well. |
| 0:23.4 | I realized, yeah, |
| 0:24.3 | it is Halloween and we're not dressed up, |
| 0:26.0 | which I'm fine with. |
| 0:26.7 | But it was like, |
| 0:27.3 | all of a sudden I was like, |
| 0:28.4 | I think that's what you're supposed to kind of do on these things. |
| 0:31.2 | But it's like, |
| 0:31.7 | hey, not a visual medium except for the people listening right now well yeah i am i was sitting in my house |
| 0:37.5 | all day i'm not going to be in a costume all day that's when people like why are you wearing a hat |
| 0:41.3 | or the questions people ask like i've been you don't understand the scramble that happens between |
| 0:46.5 | like when this late games end and when we start this show so no there's no getting ready |
| 0:51.4 | involved especially for the sunday night game to be boring for it. So we don't have to pay attention. Today was the first day, the first year, we've had trick-or-treaters. So I had so much candy in the house because I was ready. I was ready to make those kids happy. I was like, no one is going to go away wanting more candy from this house, |
| 1:11.2 | which means I have just been eating candy all day. |
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