Week 17 Recap: Bengals-Chiefs doesn't disappoint, Antonio Brown quits, Cardinals handle Cowboys, playoff picture & could Matt Stafford doom the Rams?
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🗓️ 3 January 2022
⏱️ 92 minutes
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It was a week of playoff clinching wins, confusing losses, and even more confusing behavior on the field as Joe Burrow and the Bengals wrap up the AFC North with a win over Patrick Mahomes the Chiefs , the Cowboys can't control of Kyler Murray, Antonio Brown literally quits on the Buccaneers, the Eagles stay alive, the Colts drop one to the Raiders, and could Matthew Stafford end up dooming the Rams' playoff run? Robert Mays and Nate Tice discuss these headlines and more from week 17 on a postgame Athletic Football Show.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:15.7 | 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. |
| 0:20.8 | Nate, how you doing, buddy? I'm doing well. I've learned that my entire biological clock is to 17 weeks of the NFL season and not 18 because I felt like my body just goes, hey, you made it. And then it's like, oh, we've still got one more week. We still got the 18th week to go. |
| 0:38.2 | And then the playoffs. |
| 0:39.0 | Like, I think since, I mean, honestly, since as long as I can remember, all holidays have arrived around football, everything. It's like 17 weeks. New Year's weekend. That's kind of like when the season ends. We regroup for the playoffs and still got another week. I got to change this at 32 years old. |
| 0:35.7 | We got a decent week, though. |
| 0:37.1 | If we were going to have an extra week 17, |
| 0:39.2 | and this was going to be the first year where week 17 was the penultimate week, it worked out pretty well. We're going to dig into a lot of the AFC playoff picture stuff, also in the NFC, kind of sort through all the scenarios, talk about the Titans, somehow being the number one seed in the AFC right now. |
| 1:13.8 | We're going to talk about the Giants, very rough day, dig into everything that happened on Sunday. |
| 1:19.7 | But I want to start with a fantastic game in Cincinnati. |
| 1:24.1 | I mean, just everything you could have hoped for when you were coming into that one. |
| 1:28.6 | I thought that we expected that to be the game of the week. |
| 1:31.7 | We hoped it would be exciting. |
| 1:33.1 | And boy, did it deliver. |
| 1:34.4 | I mean, it delivered even more than you possibly could have hoped. |
| 1:37.5 | In wrestling, they would call that a Haas fight. |
| 1:40.1 | That's what it was. |
| 1:41.7 | Both teams average over seven yards of play. |
| 1:44.1 | It's incredible. Neither offense had a turnover. Like, that's a it was. Both teams average over seven yards of play. It's incredible. |
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