The Steelers stay unbeaten, the Cardinals conquer, Baker Mayfield saves his job, trading for JJ Watt & more in our week 7 review
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
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4.6 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2020
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
It was an entertaining as hell week 7 in the NFL, from the Steelers outlasting the Titans in the battle of the unbeatens, to Baker Mayfield saving his job with the Browns, there was no shortage of dramatic storylines. The Athletic's Robert Mays and Nate Tice dive into the headlines of Cardinals-Seahawks, appreciation for Mike Tomlin and Tom Brady, apologies to Justin Herbert, which receivers we would start franchises with and much more in our week 7 review.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:15.8 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:18.4 | I'm Robert Maze joining me tonight. |
| 0:20.6 | It's my buddy Nate Tyson. |
| 0:21.5 | Nate, how are you? |
| 0:22.5 | I'm doing great. |
| 0:23.7 | Seven weeks in. I mean, we're just under seven weeks in. We got 10 weeks to go. But I think we were just talking about the pre-show. It's one of those that first you're like, oh, yeah, it's an okay week. and then you start re-reviewing the games and going like, |
| 0:18.9 | oh yeah, |
| 0:19.2 | that happened. |
| 0:19.7 | Oh, |
| 0:19.9 | yeah, |
| 0:20.0 | that happened. |
| 0:20.6 | And it turns out it was a fun Sunday. |
| 0:23.0 | I wasn't that excited about most of the slate. I guess part of the energy is from the game we just watched, which we're going to talk about. And then the other part is there were a lot of interesting things that happened today, even if a lot of the games seemed kind of a ho-hum in the moment. |
| 0:54.9 | So let's start with the Sunday night football game because, man, what a wild finish. |
| 1:01.7 | A lot of thoughts coming out of that game. |
| 1:04.1 | My first question to you, though, what do you make of the Cardinals? |
| 1:08.0 | Because we talked about this a little bit, I think on the Thursday show with Lindsay, where I was asking her, just kind of discussing that I thought the Cardinals |
| 1:16.1 | was going to be a wildcarry team. I didn't think they'd look like this. Their offense is |
| 1:20.5 | a little bit less consistent. They're getting yards, very strange ways. I think Kyler had 14 |
| 1:26.1 | carries again tonight, which is just not something |
| 1:28.6 | we typically see. And a lot of it scrambles. A lot of the time last year when Lamar was having those |
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