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Well, a long weekend starting on Friday of NFL football finally culminated in a Sunday night game.

There's a lot to talk about, including a revised

Pittsburgh Steelers, an L.A. Rams team that may have just lost its quarterback, a Cleveland

Brown's team that lost the second week in a row, New York Jets embarrassed somebody. But let's

begin with the latest game on the docket, which was Sunday night, and the Green Bay Packers up against the

Tennessee Titans. On paper, it looked like a good game on the snow. It wasn't a game at all.

The Packers have just pulled the head of almost everybody, and I would argue, and Mike, I know

that you've argued this multiple times on the podcast, that Aaron Rogers is the leader in your

clubhouse for MVP, the way that he's playing and considering the tools that he's working with

versus Patrick Mahomes. He just looks to be getting better and better every week. And I don't know

how you don't make the Green Bay Packers a Super Bowl favorite right now.

Yeah, it's interesting, Mitch, and they still, to lock up home field, they still have, they now have to, because the Rams lost to the Seahawks, they have to beat the Bears next week.

And the Bears will be playing for a lot.

The games in Chicago, so it will be an interesting last weekend of the season.

But what we saw last night, and I believe this closed the books on the MVP conversation

because I don't even know if Mahomes is going to have to even play next week.

Okay.

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