Week 1 Grabbag: Games of the Week, Matchups of the Week, Tice's Touts, and more
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🗓️ 7 September 2023
⏱️ 83 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!
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| 0:47.7 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:50.1 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:50.8 | Joining me today. |
| 0:51.8 | It's my good friend Nate Tice. |
| 0:52.9 | Nate, how you doing, buddy? |
| 1:29.3 | I'm doing it very, very well. We are four hours? About three hours to change. Four hours. Yeah. Game one of the NFL season, my wife went, so this is like real, right? That's how she said to me this morning. Because you approach the preseason with the same fervor as one might approach the start of the regular season. I assume that she was a little bit confused. Week zero of college football. Week one of college football. That was very hard to explain to my wife that there's two week ones essentially in college football. But I was like, no, this is for real. It's like Chiefs, lines. And she's like starters, like starters. |
| 1:31.0 | Because she understood. Like she was watch me in preseason kind of like check. Like, why are you watching this? I'm like, well, they have like some rookie. I'm trying to watch right here. But she's like, oh, didn't you say they don't play the starters in the preseason? I'm like, yeah, well, sometimes they do. |
| 1:25.3 | Okay, no, it's fine. |
| 1:26.1 | It's fine. |
| 1:26.4 | Just let me watch this. |
| 1:27.1 | You're a better man than me with all that preseason football that you're digging into. |
| 1:31.5 | Um, Like, yeah, well, sometimes they do. Okay, no, it's fine. It's fine. Just love you watches. You're a better man than me with all that preseason football that you're digging into. |
| 1:48.0 | My wife today asked me, do you want to go look at a couch tonight? |
| 1:51.6 | And I was like, I don't think so. |
| 1:54.4 | Thursday nights are now off limits, baby, unfortunately, because we are back. |
| 1:59.2 | This is our week one grab bag is what we are calling |
| 2:03.9 | the Thursday into Friday podcast this year because we don't want it to just be a straight |
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