Welcome to the Peter King Podcast,

The Peter King Podcast. Happy you can join me.

Man, an action-packed week in so many ways well we got nine

weeks in the books eight weeks to go were 52% of the way done with the regular season.

Much to my surprise, quite honestly,

there is not a single game outstanding

that has to be made up at the end of the season, may be made up, may not be made up, but

we're going to get into that a lot in this podcast today.

We are going to start our pod today this week, entering week 10 of the NFL season with Troy

Vincent, the NFL Vice President of Football Operations, a big day as we talk in the NFL because the NFL

because the NFL passed a significant rules change

to try to improve the pathways to head coaching jobs for more minorities.

Number one and then number two, they also passed a rule for this year for one year only to increase the number of playoff teams per conference to eight.

That has a little bit of an asterisk on it because it's not certain there will be eight

first of all the NFL players association has to approve it secondly there has to

be a reason for it in other words there need to be extra games left to be played at the end of the year. But we'll get into that, you know, significantly and explain all the details of that to you with Troy Vincent and also

I'm really happy to have on the podcast this week. Emmanuel Ogba, the pass Russia for the Miami Dolphins, a really big key to their success in their

four-game winning street. The Dolphins, as everybody knows, have sort of risen, you know, in the last four weeks, from a total

non-contender to now at five and three nipping at the heels of the Buffalo Bills atop the AFCs. Happy to have a manual

logbah on. But first, I want to get into a little bit of where we are.

And I know that you probably get tired of me

sometimes writing about it, talking about it,

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