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The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL

Week 1 Reaction: Cowboys Calls, Newton & Rodgers Return, The Lions Collapse & More

The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL

The Athletic

Sports, Football, Nfl Draft, Robert Mays, Nfl, Football,

4.63.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

What an opening it was in the NFL. The Athletic's Robert Mays is joined by Nate Tice to break down the highlights of the week with a review of Mike McCarthy's decision to not take the field goal, the Lions' collapse at the hands of Mitch Trubisky, Cam Newton and Aaron Rodgers' returning to form, plus a deep dive into the Colts' loss to the Jags in "What Just Happened?" and more.

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This is the Athletic Football Show.

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Welcome to the athletic football show.

1:02.9

I'm Robert Mays, and joining me tonight to recap actual football.

1:04.1

Is Nate Tyson.

1:04.9

Nate, how you doing, buddy?

1:06.7

Actual football.

1:27.6

I don't have to watch any 90s Cowboys film on YouTube and throw them up for some likes on Twitter. So this was great. Woke up at 4.30 inadvertently and beat my fiance, who had to wake up early for a job and actually beat her and couldn't go back to sleep to watch today. I kept trying to make myself go back to bed because I'm typically up around 7 a.m. every day just because of the dog. And I was like, I have to go back to sleep. I have to try to sleep more. I'm going to be so

1:32.1

tired by 11 o'clock because I'm 33 years old and cannot stay up past 1030 anymore. But we're

1:38.4

here. It's 11 p.m. Central Time. We're recording to recap all of the week one action. It was wild. I don't know about you, but I am definitely not in mid-season shape when it comes to watching the games. I was completely overwhelmed. I got another TV from my living room, so I have three. So I had the four box going, the red zone, and then the Bears game in the bottom during the early slate and I was not

2:01.6

prepared it was just way too much I felt like I was just swimming from like the first play oh I know I was

2:08.4

overwhelmed that's the only word to describe I you know like you said my legs were not in shape my eyes

2:13.0

and brain weren't in shape I was trying to watch five games at once and it was like okay let's

2:17.3

let's just let's just start with one. And what my, my first world problem right here was,

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