The Sports Reporters - Episode 346 - NFL Playoffs Set. Alabama-Ohio State for the Title. Remembering Paul Westphal

The Sports Reporters

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4.6 • 806 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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The final weekend of the NFL's regular season did not disappoint as the playoff field is now set. The Cleveland Browns make it back to the post season for the first time since 2002! Were the Eagles really playing to win against Washington? The Packers look a cut above the rest and the AFC had a hell of a year as a whole. Is Buffalo poised to make a deep run? Can Tom Brady and Tampa Bay make some noise? The guys discuss all the storylines. Plus, the College Football Championship game is set as Alabama and Ohio State are set to square off. The guys discuss the games that got them there. And remembering the NBA Hall of Famer, Paul Westphal.

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0:00.0	Award-winning journalists.
0:02.8	New York Times bestsellers.
0:04.9	No topic out of bounds.
0:06.6	No opinions left unsaid.
0:08.6	An institution for sports talk and information.
0:11.9	This is the sports reporters.
0:14.0	Here's Mike Lupica, Mitch Album, and Bob Ryan.
0:16.7	I'm Mitch Album of the Detroit Free Press.
0:18.9	I'm Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe and ESPN.
0:21.6	Happy New Year to those two old parts.
0:23.6	This is Mike Lupica, MLB.com, and the New York Daily News.
0:26.6	Welcome to the first, a 2021 edition of the Sports Reporters podcast.
0:31.7	We have much to talk about in pro football, in college football,
0:35.7	and we will leave time at the end of this podcast,
0:38.4	particularly for Mr. Ryan and I to reminisce about the passing of the great Paul Westfall.
0:44.1	But we start with a joke division all year long in the National Football League,
0:51.5	and that is the NFC East, which used to be a Titan and is no longer.
0:55.2	And then it became compelling yesterday with the notion, first of all, guys, that a six and ten
1:01.6	team might win the division, meaning the Giants, if they beat the Cowboys.
1:06.2	And then it came down to a game with the Eagles and Washington football team that became quite controversial.
1:12.1	We will start there with Doug Peterson's decision to take Jalen Hertz.
1:18.5	It's not like he was taking Patrick Mahomes out of the game, the way Hertz was playing last night,
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