The Jets lose by winning, Mahomes vs. Brees, Wild Card threat index, debating the Bills and Packers, the Bears find a groove & more in our week 15 reaction
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🗓️ 21 December 2020
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
It was a weekend of NFL football that will impact the league this season and possibly for seasons to come. How big of a deal is it that the Jets won a game? What should we make of the Chiefs' victory over the Saints? The Athletic's Robert Mays and Nate Tice dive into the week 15 headlines, their Wild Card Threat Index, Jalen Hurts, scheming to stop the Bills and Packers, Rams woes, the Bears figuring it out offensively and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:15.5 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:18.3 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:19.4 | Joining me tonight. |
| 0:20.4 | It's my buddy Nate Tyson. |
| 0:21.2 | How are you? Doing great. You know like different things really trigger like how like the season |
| 0:27.2 | feels. And I think this week having a Thursday game and a couple Saturday games like not just one |
| 0:32.2 | Saturday game. I was like oh yeah, it's winter. It's it's, it's Christmas is roaring. Like it's |
| 0:37.2 | coming down the pipeline. That was like obviously it's just like yeah, it's winter. It's, it's Christmas is roaring. Like, it's coming down the pipeline. |
| 0:38.8 | That was like, it's just like, yeah, it's just like an effect it has on me, |
| 0:42.7 | like a Pavlov's dogs kind of thing. |
| 0:45.1 | And also just like the thing, it's also maybe look up like blackout rules when, |
| 0:49.6 | like for TV rights when I was a kid because that's like the high school and college. |
| 0:53.4 | That's why they can now show it on Saturdays. It's because they can't do that when the college football is in the regular season or something. That's why it was so weird because the Clemson Notre Dame game is going on. So I had people tweeting about the NFL in college at the same time. That was really strange. Also, I've been in Miami for the last month and I have no idea how cold it is in the rest of America. |
| 1:12.4 | So I'm watching the game at Lambo on Saturday. |
| 1:14.7 | I'm like, what time of year is it? |
| 1:16.5 | I was just sitting outside by the pool and now they're just freezing cold. |
| 1:20.2 | I'm not very used to that. |
| 1:21.6 | So the time aspect of this was very confusing. |
| 1:25.2 | But we just wrapped up week 15. |
| 1:27.3 | We have a very jam-packed show to get to. |
| 1:31.7 | Oh, yeah. The Jets won a football game. We will absolutely be talking about that. We're going to do a little |
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