The Sports Reporters - Episode 454 - NFL Divisional Playoff Preview. Murky NCAA Ruling. Westbrook Benched in LA

The Sports Reporters

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🗓️ 20 January 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

The NFL playoffs are heating up and the guys preview the exciting weekend of action. How to beat Tom Brady? Can San Francisco stay hot? Is this the Bills' year? Plus, the NCAA adopts a new transgender policy. Is this a problem without a solution? Making sense of the ruling. And is the Russell Westbrook, LA Lakers experiment over? What led to the stars benching? And who's really running things in LA?

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0:00.0	award-winning journalists new york times bestsellers no topic out of bounds no opinions left
0:07.8	unsaid an institution for sports talk and information this is the sports reporters here's
0:14.4	mike lupica and mitch alb i'm michelbum of the detroit free press i am mike lupac m lb dot com in the new york
0:20.5	daily news bob ryan is away today welcome to the thursday edition of the Detroit Free Press. I am Mike Lubb at MLB.com in the New York Daily News.
0:21.1	Bob Ryan is away today.
0:22.4	Welcome to the Thursday edition of the sports reporters.
0:25.9	We have a lot to talk about today in reverse.
0:28.7	Russell Westbrook and Leah Thomas and transgender swimmer, but we will start with football.
0:34.9	And some interesting, they're all interesting games after a stinker, Mitch, right?
0:39.1	A stinker of a wildcard weekend. Oh my God, what a disaster it was. But, you know, Mitch and I,
0:45.1	we were talking before the show, which one we wanted to start with. To me, Mitch, you may disagree
0:49.6	with me. I think the most interesting game and the most dramatic game of the weekend off of what we saw from your friend Matthew Stafford and the Rams on Monday night is them against the defending champs in Tampa Bay, a wounded Bucks team going up against a Rams team. Mitch, this is the Rams team we were waiting for, the one firing on all cylinders
1:12.0	and, you know, it shot the Cardinals out of a cannon on Monday night.
1:16.7	I am so perplexed at how to judge that Monday night game because I have not seen a team
1:23.6	show up as ill-prepared as the Arizona Cardinals were for that playoff game in years.
1:29.3	And so I don't know if the Rams were that good or Arizona was that bad. Honestly, from the
1:33.4	very beginning with the three-and-out, three-and-out, Cliff Kingsbury looking like, oh my God,
1:39.0	I'm in a playoff game. I mean, that's literally the face that he had the entire sideline,
1:44.9	and Kyler Murray just was not ready for that game.
1:48.1	So I don't think the Rams are as dominant as they showed against Arizona,
1:55.6	but they did what they needed to do, which is write the ship.
1:59.2	And what's funny with the Rams is as bad
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