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lupica mitch album and bob ryan i'm mike lupica of the new york daily news and m lb dot com i'm bob ryan

of the boston globe and espn i'm mitch album of the det York Daily News and MLB.com. I'm Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe and ESPN.

I'm Mitch Album of the Detroit Free Press, and we welcome you to the sports reporters podcast.

This is the podcast incarnation of the long-running Sunday morning TV show on ESPN.

We may not be in suits.

I'm wearing a suit. I don't know about you guys.

But it is the same conversation. Continued. may not be in suits. I'm wearing a suit. I don't know about you guys.

But it is the same conversation.

Continued now in the podcast world and twice a week, Mondays and Thursdays.

Mondays give us a great opportunity to look back, especially in the fall on football action.

And boy, there's a lot to talk about, obviously, in the college game with Tua and now being done for the season. What does that mean for Alabama? Ohio State's got big challenges coming up now with

Penn State and Michigan and much more to talk about there. And obviously the Colin Kaepernick situation

just got weirder and weirder over the weekend. And we're going to dive into that. But let's begin with the football action on the professional side.

A lot of kind of statements made by certain teams yesterday, and we'll begin with the

reigning Super Bowl champions who had been questioned after playing a patty schedule for the first part of the year,

and then having their lunch handed to them by Baltimore,

and then had to go on the road against Philadelphia, which I thought was really a coming team.

I still think they may make the playoffs.

A tough 17 to 10 game that ended up hanging on Julian Edelman's touchdown passing ability and not

not not not Belichick was actually funny did you see him afterwards it's talking about

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