Week 1 Grabbag: Games of the Week, Matchups of the Week, Tice's Touts, and more

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🗓️ 7 September 2023

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Week 1 has arrived! What better way to celebrate than with Robert Mays and Nate Tice breaking down the biggest games the coming weekend has to offer. The guys dig into Bills-Jets, Bengals-Browns and Dolphins-Chargers, and highlight what they're looking for in the Eagles offense/Patriots defense and 49ers offense/Steelers defense showdowns. Plus, Nate makes some picks in Tice's Touts, and Dianna Russini joins Robert to discuss the latest contract news. Football is back! Follow Robert on X: @robertmays Follow Nate on X: @Nate_Tice Follow Dianna on X: @DMRussini Subscribe to The Athletic Football Show... Apple Spotify YouTube This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/MAYS and get on your way to being your best self. This episode is sponsored by Sleep Number®: Save $400 on the New Sleep Number® c4 smart bed. Plus, special financing for a limited time. Only at Sleep Number® stores or sleepnumber.com. Sleep Number. The Official Sleep and Wellness Partner of the National Football League. See store for details. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:12.3	Atlassian, for projects impossible alone.
0:30.6	Welcome to the Athletic football show.
0:32.7	I'm Robert Mayes. Join me today.
0:34.4	It's my good friend, Nate Heistane. How are you doing, buddy?
0:36.8	I'm doing very, very well. We are four hours, about three hours and three hours.
0:42.4	Four hours. Yeah. Game one of the NFL season. My wife went, so this is like real, right?
0:48.8	That's how she said to me this morning. This one's like,
0:51.3	because you approached the preseason with the same fervor as one might approach the start of
0:56.0	the regular season. I assume that she was a little bit confused.
0:59.2	Week zero of college football, week one of college football.
1:03.1	That was very hard to explain to my wife that there's two week ones, essentially, in college
1:07.2	football. But I was like, no, this is for real. It's like chiefs, lines. She's like starters.
1:11.3	Like starters. Because yeah, they're so like, she was watching me in free season, kind of like,
1:16.0	check. Like, why are you watching this? I'm like, well, they're like some rookie. I'm trying to
1:19.6	watch right here. But she's like, oh, didn't you say they don't play the starters in the preseason?
1:22.6	Like, yeah, well, sometimes they do. Okay, no, it's fine. It's fine. Just love you watches.
1:26.4	You're a better man than me at all that all that preseason football that you're digging into.
1:30.9	My wife today asked me, do you want to go look at a couch tonight? And I was like, I don't think so.
1:36.9	Thursday nights are now off limits, maybe, unfortunately, because we are back.
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