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Welcome to the athletic football show.

I'm Robert Mays.

Joining me today.

It's my good friend Nate.

Tice Nate, how you doing, buddy?

Doing it very well. Today, it's just the first espresso when I'm on thiss. Joining me today. It's my good friend Nate Tice. Nate, how you doing, buddy? Doing very well.

Today, it's just the first espresso when I'm on this show, as opposed to the second double that I usually down before we do our Thursday show. So just on the first one today, but I am doing very well. Kind of a, I like the vibes of maybe doing this on a Friday morning. We get to react to some stuff. I got some more injury ports to look at another day.

It was actually like, oh, they haven't practiced. I like the vibes of maybe doing this on a Friday morning. We get to react to some stuff. I got some more injury ports to look at another day.

It was actually like, oh, they haven't practiced yet. We're not sure. Kind of nice. But no, I'm doing awesome. How are you today, Robert? Doing okay. I appreciate you guys sticking with us. We released this a little bit later dealing with some family stuff yesterday. so it means a lot that you guys are understanding.

But we are recording this on Friday morning,

which is giving us a chance to react to the Thursday night game in a way that we don't typically do on this show. We didn't do a Thursday night recap yesterday because we thought it would be a sort of forgettable game between Aiden O'Connell and Easton Stick. Yeah, felt like it was an okay choice in week 15 where it's like, yeah, you know what? We're going to take this one off. It's been a long season. Instead, we get a Raiders blowout and what really did feel like the end of the Brandon Staley era in Los Angeles. Everyone saw the game. We all know what happened in the game. I don't think we have to rehash what happened in the game. I had it on the second TV down in my basement while I was watching TV with my wife.

And she's very rarely engaged in

football. But even she, as she was watching it, she said, this is embarrassing. After the Jack Jones

pick, she very seriously, it was like, man, that's embarrassing. She saw the score at one point in the

second half. She goes, they should just stop the game. Why don't they just stop the game?

There was genuine disgust, and she just never cares.

So listening to her roast the chargers last night was very funny.

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