Week 18 Preview: Bills-Dolphins for the AFC East, Texans-Colts for a playoff spot, Packers offense vs. Bears defense, and more
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🗓️ 5 January 2024
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The Bills and Dolphins meet on Sunday night with the AFC East on the line. The Texans and Colts meet on Saturday night with a trip to the playoffs on the line. The Packers find themselves in a win-and-in situation when they face the Bears in the latest entry in the NFL's oldest rivalry. There's little more you can ask for in the final week of the regular season. Robert Mays and Nate Tice break it down on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
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| 0:47.7 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:50.0 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:50.9 | Joining me today. |
| 0:51.8 | It's my good friend, A. Tice. |
| 0:52.8 | Nate, how you doing, buddy? |
| 1:14.7 | You're doing very well. I'm feeling a wide open Thursday. Yeah. We're recording this. A recording and done Thursday for the athletic football show. But I'm doing very well. Week 18. Still getting used to that. It's always going to be Week 17 B in my heart. But no, happy. This is we got some good matchups, which is always great. The schedule is always going to have some, but sometimes it's just one. |
| 1:18.6 | But here we got a couple. And we got, it seems like every playoff scenario, every playoff tie |
| 1:23.2 | tiebreaker possible going into this last week. So cannot wait to talk about it. A lot of good |
| 1:26.9 | stuff on tap. |
| 1:27.7 | Two really important games where the winner either wins the division like Bill's Dolphins or gets into the playoffs like Texans Colts. That's what we're going to break down today. One more matchup that we're excited about than a couple other bigger picture of conversations. But I wanted to start. Pro Bowl rosters came out last night. Curious, any egregious snubs that are |
| 1:46.6 | upsetting to you, anything that you think is a miscarriage of justice, okay with what happened. |
| 1:52.6 | Where do you sit with where the Pro Bowl rosters are? Overall, not bad. I would say overall, |
| 1:58.5 | not bad. I kind of agree. Yes. I thought overall was pretty good. |
| 2:01.6 | Even the line play was like, okay, I get it. |
| 2:04.6 | I get it. |
| 2:05.6 | I can understand every argument. Like I can't even like, okay, I was like, oh, Josh Allen's not one, but it's like, I can't argue him over any of those other guys. as much as like even if this is my home's off year quote unquote like this is still a good year |
| 2:01.7 | I would have been fine with |
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