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The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL

Week 15 Recap: Saints silence Tom Brady, Lions shock the Cardinals & explaining the AFC playoff picture

The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL

The Athletic

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

4.63.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

The NFL's week 15 was full of sloppy play, backup starters, and unexpected wins. Robert Mays and Nate Tice run down the biggest headlines coming out of Sunday, from the Saints shutting out Tom Brady and the Bucs, to the Lions shocking the Cardinals to get their second win under Dan Campbell and more + Robert and Nate attempt to bring some clarity to the AFC playoff race following the Ravens loss and wins by the Bengals and Steelers.


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0:00.0

This is the athletic football show.

0:15.3

Welcome to the athletic football show.

0:17.6

I'm Robert Mays.

0:18.7

Joining me tonight.

0:19.6

It's my good friend Nate Tyson.

0:20.6

Nate, how

0:20.8

you doing, buddy? We survived. We got through it. Andy defrained it, crawled through that muck,

0:28.6

crawled through it, and we got out of it. Here we are, Sunday night. Oh, boy.

0:34.1

Well, we've talked about this before. I don't do a lot of looking at the schedule in far in advance. We talk about the games that we're going to talk about on Friday's show early in the week, midweek. But I don't look at the whole schedule usually until the day before or so. But yesterday I went to the Colts game. So I was a little bit behind. So I was looking at it this morning. I was like, oh, no. I saw you tweeted. I was terrible. I saw when your life opened off. I mean, if you're looking at that early slate of games, the best game is maybe Titan Steelers, and we'll get to that. We'll talk about all of the ugliness from today. We're going to talk about the Cardinals loss. We're going to talk about what the hell is going on in the AFC playoff picture. There's a lot for us to dig into from what was an ugly Sunday. But let's start with the ugliness we just had to watch. I cannot, even if the Bucks struggle with the Saints, and they do, and we'll talk about some of that, getting blanked by that team, even without the receivers, even with the background and the history he's had against Dennis Allen over the last couple of years. It's kind of a shocking result, no? Yeah, a goose egg. I think it's the first time Brady's ever been shut out. It's hard to get shut out in the NFL. It's hard. It's hard. especially when it wasn't, yeah, the injuries, of course, yada, yeah, yeah,

1:45.3

but everyone's got injuries.

2:03.2

Uh, but also just like, yeah, it's hard not to just look at least a field goal, get yourself in scoring range, you know, they missed a couple of them. So that also hurts. Yeah. Yeah, that does hurt. But at least like just, but that even has to go against you as well. but it's just like it's hard hard. It's hard to put up 40 and it's hard to get skunked. It really is.

2:04.1

Like just something at the end, like a little like, like give me like a bullshit drive at the end to get you some scores. A two minute drive at the before the half. Just something. But yeah, that's really hard against an offense that we were feeling pretty good about going into this week.

2:04.0

Yes, I know, again, injuries.

2:05.2

But it was, yeah, it was just their bogey team. Dennis Allen, those saints, they really are. But as on top of it, it just kind of sums up what this weekend was. We say any given Sunday, but now it's any given Thursday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday. And that's kind of how it felt this weekend. So Brady gets sacked four times, hit seven times. That has something to do with the receiving talent, just because he's not willing to get rid of the ball as quick. I'm sure he is not seeing it as well. But it's a rough day for that front against a pretty good Saints defensive line. Cam Jordan had two sacks.

2:50.9

Gets to 100.

2:52.3

Feels like your all-fame case is getting stronger and stronger by the day.

2:55.9

There we go.

2:56.8

There we go.

2:57.6

He was looking at the pod and he was like, I'm going to help you, Nate.

2:59.7

I'm going to make you look smart.

3:01.7

You list, look at the numbers.

3:03.5

Brady's completion percentage over expectation today was negative 13.4.

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