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Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. Today's Friday, January 7th. I'm Robert Mays. Joining me today, it's my good friend Nate Tyson. How you doing, buddy? I'm doing great. I feel like I just spoke to you, which we did. But then I also listened to the other podcast this week, the other all pro show. So it's like I just been getting my constant Robert. Just need the drip until Sunday night when we do the live show. So I'm going to lay this out for everybody right now. Shield's going to be joining us a little bit later to do picks. There's been a lot of stuff on the podcast feed this week. We did two all pro shows. We did an award show. I mean, there are hours and hours of hours podcasts that you guys can go

check out it's been a hectic day over here uh if you guys haven't heard i don't look at the internet

um i i've on my fourth company in the last two years so if you can tell me where my health

insurance is i would really appreciate that i don't even know anymore. Obviously, some exciting news. The press releases

are out, everything else that the athletic has made a big move. And all I have to say about all of

that is we're going to continue to try to bring you the best show we possibly can every single day.

That's all we can do. And it's exciting. And I'm excited to continue doing that. It's been a really

fun ride here so far. Excited to continue that. We love doing this. And that's exciting. And I'm excited to continue doing that. It's been a really fun ride here so far.

Excited to continue that. We love doing this. And that's all I really care about every single day of my life.

Every single moment is making this show good. And nothing is going to change about that. So appreciate you guys listening.

And hope you continue to do so. I know our conversations won't change much. So par for the course. So with all the stuff we put out this week with how hectic of a day it's been here, we're recording this on Thursday, and with this week's schedule, there aren't a lot of games that matter, right? So there aren't that many games that have huge playoff implications. We're going to hit on a couple of those today, but we're only going to talk about a couple games. It's going to be kind of a truncated version of our Friday show. Hope that's okay with all of you. I'm sure it is. We have a lot of stuff that we'll be digging into come playoff time here over the next couple weeks. Let's start with the game that matters. The game that is a winner take all loser leaves loser leaves town, however you want to frame it, sort of match here between the Chargers and the Raiders.

Let's start with when the Chargers have the ball.

I went back and I watched that game they played in week four earlier today.

Chargers had a lot of success on the ground.

I mean, Alston Eckler had a big day. I'm curious, what do you think of the major

points that you're looking out for when the Chargers have the ball in this game?

Really, how they hold up protection would be the one big thing. You know, that's one thing

Raiders do have. We can talk all about the coverages they run, all that, but they're

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