You don't want it, you don't need it, but you theme, always a nice sound.

But when you hear it late in the season, especially in the next the last weekend of the

season, you know it is leading into a big game. And Washington hosting Atlanta on Sunday night

flexed into that spot a few weeks ago is a big game in the NFC playoff race.

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My keys to a win over the Falcons and a prediction in this opening

segment. Jay Gruden will follow in the next segment. We'll get his preview and pick,

along with his NFL lock of the week. And my smell test to finish up the show at the end of the

show, it got off to a good start last night with the Bears

plus four and a half, even though we had to endure an awful football game, six to three,

the final, but we'll take it. Bears plus four and a half winner last night to kick off the weekend.

No bowl games today or tonight.

There are a bunch of them going on.

I didn't like any of them, and it's really hard, even up until kickoff,

to determine in some of these bowl games who's playing and who isn't.

So all of the smell test picks will be Sunday NFL picks and probably a Monday night pick as well.

All right. So Washington's playoff situation goes like this.

And I'll lay it out for you chronologically as far as this Sunday is concerned, because Washington

is the last game of the day on Sunday. In the one o'clock window, there's a significant game

for Washington's playoff clinching chances. Tampa Bay plays at home against Carolina. The Panthers, by the way, have played well over the last month and a half,

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