This is the athletic football show.

Welcome to the athletic football show.

I'm Robert Mays.

Great show for you guys today.

A little bit later, Ted Lassow,-creator and co-star and Bears fan. Brendan Hunt will be joining us. I'm very excited about that. Before we get to Brendan, though, got our normal Thursday rundown here with Lindsay Jones. Lindsay, how you doing? Well, I feel like this is a little anticlimactic now.

I'm sorry that I'm not. Stop, stop. Stop. That's all right. I mean, Ted Lasso is at the top of my list to start streaming. So I think this podcast today will be the final push I needed to go watch it. So I'm very

excited to listen to your interview. We will talk about this a little bit later on the show. I've loved it. I tweeted about it. Brendan reached out. He's a big Bears fan. I figured everyone is talking about this. This is the time to have him on the show. So we did it. It was great. I'm excited for you guys to hear it. Before we could do any of that, though, we also have a very exciting week 10 slate of games. There's a ton to get to here. We're not going to worry about any news this week. There's a couple more COVID kind of occurrences around the league, but it feels like the big ones like Rathusberger, for example, are probably going to be back by the weekend. So nothing that's going to affect these games more likely than not. So we're just going to get to the games.

We have two games of the week this week.

I want to start with the Seahawks and the Rams.

This is suddenly after the Seahawks losing to the bills last week, a monster game in the

NFC West.

And it almost feels like the Rams have kind of gone to the back burner a little bit because they lost the dolphins. Then they were on the buy.

They beat the Bears in prime time, but no one was super excited about that because the bears were unwatchable that week as they typically are.

So I want to get into this. The first thing I want to ask you is you assess both of these teams halfway through the season, and you're thinking about

the NFC West race as we get down the stretch, if you had to pick one of these teams right now,

even beyond this week to win that division, gun to head, who are you picking right now?

So I'm going to pick the Seahawks because they have the better quarterback.

And if it's like one of those one game, one game to win and you get in type of deals,

I'm going to bet on Russell Wilson just about every time.

I don't feel great about it because clearly the Seahawks have some pretty significant flaws,

potentially fatal flaws that could very much keep them from not just winning the Super Bowl or being a

Super Bowl contender, but from winning this division. But if you give me one guy between

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