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I'm Robert Mays. Really enjoyed today's show. This is kind of the first iteration of the midweek show that we're going to be doing over the course of the year.

Week one is always weird, so Sando and I just kind of dug into what we thought was real and not real last week.

But each week on Wednesdays, we're going to have hopefully a couple guests digging into a bunch of NFL topics. So today, first off, we had Sam Schwartzstein, who is the analytic expert on Prime video, come on and recap the Monday night game. And then we dug into a bunch of different topics. We talked about the state of player tracking and some of the things that they're trying to do over there on Prime Video. And then we dug into a couple different segments that we're going to try doing on every midweek show and just a really good conversation that hit a bunch of different stuff. Excited for you guys to hear that. We also had our first installment of what we're calling quarterback counseling with my buddy Stephen Ruiz from the ringer who

happens to be a very big Panthers fan. So when the situation calls for it, we're going to have

this midweek show be a safe space for people to come on and talk through some of their feelings

about the quarterback on the team that they root for. We did this once last year before getting rid of the midweek show.

So we're going to bring it back because I just love people who are fans and are in football

media getting to dig through some of this stuff and work some of it out.

And we want to provide them a platform to do that.

So really enjoyed my conversations with Sam and with Stephen.

Let's get to it.

Music that. So really enjoyed my conversations with Sam and with Stephen. Let's get to it. Joining us now from the Amazon Prime Thursday night broadcast, the TNF analytics expert himself.

It's Sam Schwarzstein.

Sam, how you doing, man?

Good, Robert.

Thanks for having me back on.

Very good to have you. excited to start digging into these midweek shows, which are kind of a new prospect for us. We haven't really done them in this format before, and I'm very excited to be doing them all season. We're going to start all of these, like we did last week with Mike Sando, with a Monday night football recap.

And I feel like what happened last night,

there's a lot for you to help us digest because some of the decision making that happened late in the game. So we're just going to dig right into that. The Falcons come back. They beat the Eagles in very exciting fashion. It's a miserable loss for Philadelphia. But let's just kick this off with some of the decision making by the Eagles in that final drive. Let's just lay it out and what they were looking at

in that moment. You're up by three with 146 to go on the plus 10 and the other team has no

timeouts. You're looking at third and three and you've been able to run the ball very consistently

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