Week 13 Preview: Wednesday Afternoon Football feels strange, NFL preps for a COVID playoffs, Wentz continues decline & more

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🗓️ 3 December 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

There's truly nothing like that early-December tradition all Americans know and love: Wednesday afternoon football. The thrice-delayed second meeting of the Pittsburgh Steelers & Baltimore Ravens finally occurred on an extremely-rare Wednesday afternoon and the end results were mixed: the Steelers came away with a win in what was ultimately an ugly game for the virus-stricken Ravens.Terez Paylor & Charles Robinson open the show discussing the W.A.F. game as well as a few lingering COVID questions the league is dealing with: if there is a vaccine readily available within the next month, will the players have access to it soon? In what scenario will the NFL break the 'in case of emergency' Week 18 glass? Will playoff teams enter an NBA-style playoff bubble?Later in the podcast, they discuss another disappointing loss for the Philadelphia Eagles. What's wrong with Philly & their former MVP-caliber QB Carson Wentz? What happened in the Eagles' 2020 draft war room that almost yielded them both an Offensive Rookie of the Year and a Defensive Rookie of the Year candidate? (20:55)A listener writes in discussing possible landing spots for Detroit Lions QB Matt Stafford, who may be on the trade block after the team fired its coach and GM on Sunday. Could the Browns, Broncos or Bears deal for the former first overall pick? (32:25)Finally, Terez & Charles chat about what they'll be watching for this weekend in the matchups between the Los Angeles Rams and Arizona Cardinals, Buffalo Bills and San Francisco 49ers, New Orleans Saints and Atlanta Falcons and the Cleveland Browns and Tennessee Titans. (47:00)Stay up to date with the latest NFL news and coverage from Yahoo Sports on Twitter @YahooSportsNFL.Follow Charles @CharlesRobinsonFollow Terez @TerezPaylorTag your questions for the guys on Twitter with #YahooNFLPodcastCheck out the rest of the Yahoo Sports Podcast family at https://apple.co/2Abi8jk or at yahoosports.com/podcasts See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:55.6	Rieder Charles Robinson and Charles, have you spent in the last three years talking about
1:00.3	the explosive passing offenses and the explosive
1:03.7	offensive output in the NFL. It turns out after watching the Broncos and the
1:10.2	Ravens we just needed the worst pandemic in a century to see old school quarterback play, huh? the We have officially capped week 12 on Wednesday.
1:25.0	Isn't that crazy?
1:27.0	Oh, it goes, it's ridiculous.
1:28.0	You and I said at the beginning of the season that this was going to be like nothing we'd ever seen before.
1:34.2	I didn't know we'd be playing football on a Wednesday at 340 afternoon.
1:39.7	It was so weird.
1:41.3	It was, because I'm sitting in my office just like you know and you're doing your
1:45.0	research and you're texting your guys and it's like why is your football on right now?
1:48.8	Did it not feel like like it was a replay of a game right? That's what it felt like to me like I was
1:53.8	watching a game like NFL network the replays yeah yeah that's exactly what it felt like
1:58.2	yeah but it only took about 10 minutes before I started to get texts from people in the league going, why, why, why did they do this?
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