Week 16 recap, part two — Russell Wilson drama, Packers still in it, Tua problems & Buccaneers slip by Cardinals
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🗓️ 26 December 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Time for part two as we recap a busy NFL Christmas weekend. So busy, in fact, that we had to split the Week 16 recap on The Athletic Football Show into two parts. In part two, Robert Mays and Nate Tice focus on Sunday's games. First up, it's the Packers staying alive with a huge win over the Miami Dolphins, Russell Wilson drama hits an all time high in Denver after their blowout loss to the Rams, the Buccaneers slipping past the Arizona Cardinals and more.
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1:00 Packers top Dolphins
7:00 Why is Tua Tagovailoa struggling?
13:00 Can the Packers make noise in the playoffs?
17:00 Denver Broncos fall to Rams / Russell Wilson situation
33:00 - Bucs barely beat Cardinals
45:00 - BREAKING: Broncos fire Nathaniel Hackett
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| 0:00.0 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:15.5 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:17.9 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:18.8 | Joining me today. |
| 0:19.5 | It's my good friend Nate Tyson. |
| 0:20.5 | How you doing, buddy? I'm having a feeling of deja vu. That's how I'm Robert Mays. Joining me today. It's my good friend Nate Tyson. How you doing, buddy? |
| 0:21.5 | I'm having a feeling of deja vu. That's how I'm feeling right at this moment. But no, feeling great. Feel great after my quick little water break and hopping right back in here and do Sunday's games. Yeah, just a little break, just a little, like, two-minute break here. if you guys have not listened to part one of our Christmas weekend recap, we talked about the Saturday games. That one pretty much like one of our normal Sunday recap shows. Got to do a bunch of different stuff. Talked about a bunch of games. So if you have not listened to that, you can wait until after you listen to this one. But please go check it out. Really good conversations about the Eagles and the Cowboys. |
| 0:55.5 | Talked a lot about Justin Jefferson and the Vikings win. |
| 0:58.0 | The Lions getting just their asses kicked by the Carolina Panthers who showed up in a big way on Sunday. |
| 1:03.8 | So please go listen to that one if you have not. |
| 1:06.5 | But let's do this. |
| 1:07.3 | Let's dig into the Christmas Day games, which started off with a doozy in Miami, where it was very cold for Miami standards, by the way. |
| 1:16.1 | It was like 42 degrees. |
| 1:17.9 | My fiance is from Miami. |
| 1:19.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:19.9 | So she was like, that'd be the, that's the coldest that would have ever been. |
| 1:22.8 | It was like 40 degrees. |
| 1:23.9 | Meanwhile, my pipes froze here because it was negative 25 with the wind chills. |
| 1:28.9 | So I'm feeling really bad about those Miami folks with their 40 degree weather. |
| 1:33.7 | Whenever I think Miami Christmas, I think a home alone too. And because aren't they down there |
| 1:38.1 | and it's like pouring rain or something like that? That's right. That's right. We go for Thanksgiving |
| 1:42.1 | every year. So that's always strange. I always try to force the sweater because it's Thanksgiving. That's right. That's right. We go for Thanksgiving every year. So that's always strange. |
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