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The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL

Week 16 Recap: Joe Burrow makes history, Cowboys secure the NFC East, Baker Mayfield can't loosen up, Chiefs & Colts surging & more

The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL

The Athletic

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

4.63.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2021

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Week 16 of NFL action is wrapping up, as Joe Burrow makes history against the Ravens, Dak Prescott and the Cowboys secure the NFC East thanks to Trevon Diggs and the defense, the Chargers drop a concerning game to the Texans, the Patriots stumble, the Chiefs and Colts look unstoppable and much more. Join Robert Nate and Nate Tice for their weekly postgame reaction discussing the highs and lows of Saturday and Sunday, including the Jaguars' confusing end-of-game sequence, the Bears' last-minute victory in Seattle and more.


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0:00.0

This is the athletic football show.

0:15.6

Welcome to the athletic football show.

0:18.0

I'm Robert Mays.

0:18.9

Joining me tonight.

0:19.8

It's my good friend Nate Tice.

0:20.7

Nate, how you doing, buddy? Doing well. I told you this right before the show. I was like, I, for sure my dad's son, because now I'm in his office right now, as people watch it on YouTube can see. And he has no, like he has the sticky notes everywhere, like 40 different ones. You got some beautiful mind shit going on right now. He's got wires everywhere.

0:21.5

But he did clean up.

1:31.9

So thank you, dad. I appreciate that. And also, also I found out that I'm going to be an uncle. And so I'm very, very excited. Yes. What a fun weekend. It's a great weekend. Yeah. Very, very nice capper to the holiday season. That's great. I always spent the Christmas with my family as well. I'm with my brothers and my mom and my fiance. It was really great. I got to see my grandma for a long time. We were nice and safe. And it was fantastic. And we also got a great weekend of football to go along with a great weekend of family. We're going to dig into a lot of stuff today, including the Saturday night games, including the Christmas night games. I feel like there was so much to chew on in those games. We wanted to hit on them. But before we do any of that, let's chat about what just happened on Sunday night. We weren't necessarily going to talk about this game if it weren't exciting. But then the Cowboys started doing what the Cowboys did. And I felt like we had to touch on it because we had a conversation about Dallas's offense on Friday show. And I asked you, somebody who has

1:37.4

watched this offense a lot over the course of the year. More than the Jags offense, believe it or

1:41.9

not. It's an offense that we've both been interested by.

1:46.0

I feel like we were really excited about them early in this season.

1:48.6

And obviously they had hit kind of a swoon over the last four or five weeks.

1:52.3

And I asked you, are you concerned about them?

1:55.2

Do you think that they're going to turn this around?

1:57.6

And your takeaway was, I feel like they're about to explode against the right team.

2:03.1

And oh boy, did they explode tonight against Washington? I'm causing Washington to explode.

2:08.7

You know your offense is playing well when the other team is taking swings at each other on

2:12.7

the sideline. In the first quarter. Like that's not, it wasn't even like a fourth quarter

2:16.8

frustration. Oh, now we're losing by three scores or something with that. It was like, you know, four minutes ago in the first quarter. Like that's not, it wasn't even like a fourth quarter frustration. Oh, now we're losing by three scores or something with that.

2:19.6

It was like, you know, four minutes ago in the first quarter, they're already blowing up.

2:23.0

And I was like, I feel comfortable, uh, being really, uh, proud of myself right now, as

2:28.1

I say, broken clocks right twice a day.

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