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Welcome to the athletic football show.

I'm Robert Mays.

Joining me today.

So a good friend Nate Tyson, how you doing, buddy?

I'm doing very well. And now our pre-show discussion makes me want to play FIFA. I just really, really want to play the video game FIFA as we're talking about American football. But no, we were talking about old video games we used to play, generally all sports games. And then we realized that we're washed as we get older. I know I am in sports games. that everyone's like, why don't you play Madden? Online? No? Are you kidding? I don't know the meta. But no, I am doing very well. I'm mostly a single player guy now. I'm old. I do Zelda. I do like, you know, a little bit of Overwatch, but that's all I do in my old age. But yeah, that's my video game experience these days. I haven't played a video game and I don't even know however many years. I used to like reading about video games. When we were at Grantland, they, we had Tom Bissell wrote about video games for us. And I would read those stories because I would put them into our CMS. So I was reading about video games as recently as like 10 years ago, even though I haven't consistently played video games for, since I was in college. And even in college, I didn't really play video games in college. It was only when I would come home and play with my high school friends. So video games in general have just been sort of a blind spot for me for most of my life. But I understand the love other people have for them. Mine was, I got away from it a little bit in college, again, more sports games. And then after college, when I was living on my own for five years. There was a lot of love on own time for Nate. So there's a lot of video game time to fill that space. All right. We got a big week ahead of us here. A couple games that we're going to dig into.

Obviously, it's the holiday weekend.

Just a heads up for everybody.

We haven't said this anywhere yet.

We are not going to have our week 16 recap available to you guys on Monday morning because Monday is Christmas.

So the show is going to be up on Tuesday morning.

We're recording it first thing

Tuesday morning. So hopefully it's up around midday Eastern time on Tuesday the 26. Though,

just a heads up for when you're looking for the show and when it's going to be available.

That is our plan right now. The game of the weekend, one of the games of the year, a game that

everyone will be able to watch in prime time on Christmas after you're done with all the time you're spending with your family.

We have Niners and Ravens this week. Very simply, the game of the year.

A game between two of, I think, the best 15 teams ever measured by DVOA is what Aaron Schott said earlier this week, two teams that

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