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. How you doing, buddy? I'm doing great. I got to ask with Kent with that. I'm Robert Mays. Joining me tonight. It's my good friend Nate Tice.

Nate, how you doing, buddy?

I'm doing great.

I got asked with Kent with that.

I don't know if you put the music for the waiting room, but it was like a little

lo-fi beat going.

I was like, vibe it.

A couple of a minute and a half.

I was just kind of hanging out like, okay, this is pretty good. This is a nice little warm-up song. But we made it week one. We spent a lot of time picking that warm-up music. We did make it week one. Week one is amazing, but it's also a lot.

There was so much to keep track of. I always forget it every single year when I actually, the games actually start.

And I'm trying to keep track of three screens and six games and everything that's going on.

By the time the day ends, I'm just emotionally exhausted, which was really good for this week

because it meant that I couldn't engage with the Bears game to any sort of degree.

So it kind of washed over me in a way where I was watching it in the background, which was

probably best considering what happened. I'm just picturing you like the dad from married with children, like just hand down pants, just like just sprawled, just resigned to his fate of whatever that happened with the Bears game. I mean, hey, Fields, two for two. I mean, you can't, I mean, that, at least he got a little pop right there. At this point, it just seems like they're biting time until he plays. And when you think about the rest of the roster, and that's always how it was going to feel. But that's what tonight was. You come out, you're playing in their stadium. They're so excited to have Stafford there. And you just see the holes. The offensive line isn't very good. The secondary isn't very good. And until he starts to play and we understand what the future might look like with him at quarterback, none of the rest of this doesn't really matter. And that's how I felt coming in. And tonight was just such a confirmation of that entire situation. Yeah. And that's what it felt like. It felt like they were just wanted to sprinkle him in just a little bit. Just like, hey, we're going to get you that live reps. Just feed the bullets. But it's like they wouldn't do that if they weren't expecting him to be the guy coming down the road. So that's like, I mean, it just makes all the sense of the world. And I mean, I mean, Andy, Andy Dalton did what he could. I mean, the opening interception was brutal, but, you know, at least he did what he could, considering the situation that he's being put in right now.

Exactly. I mean, it's just like he was fine. And we knew Andy Dalton's going to be fine. I mean, that's what he is. And we understand that. But until Justin Fields plays, it's just, I don't really know what we're waiting for. I don't really know what we're doing. But that's, we'll have that conversation at another time. For right now, let's get to the first 15. Every single week, we're going to start with this, is this is a new way to open the show that we're doing this year. It's the first 15 minutes of the show, which also happens to be a football term. It's the first 15 plays you come out with with your script.

So it aligns very well. So we're going to start with the first 15 every single week. This week we're starting with some of them are key games of the week that featured teams that fancy themselves contenders in the AFC. There were a couple pretty important matchups in that regard today during week one. Obviously, we got the Browns and the Chiefs.

We got the Steelers and the Bills.

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