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Welcome to the athletic football show.

I'm Robert Mays.

I'm my good friend Nate Tyson.

Nate, how you doing, buddy?

Doing very well. Week 18, we're here. Week 18,. It's my good friend Nate Tyson. Nate, how you doing, buddy? Doing very well.

Week 18, we're here. Week 18, we're here. This is the best. Last year we got the Chargers, Raiders, brew, ha, ha. Which was a lot of thought, which was a very interesting game. Remember there was that moment where they thought they might play for the tie? Yeah. I still think the Raiders were.

I don't remember why this was happening, but... there's that moment where they we thought they might play for the tie. Yeah. I still think the Raiders were.

I don't remember why this was happening, but I think my cable was screwed up.

So I was watching it on my, on the first floor and the basement. I was like walking back and forth, like pacing among two floors of my house.

And I remember that general energy applying to the last

Justin Herbert drive and I'm like screaming it that was a heck of a day and a heck of a week

for football it was it was and hopefully we get maybe a couple of those this weekend you know just

maybe some situations but that's the one that's burning my brain we got some there's always some

fun ones week 17 and week 18 games so hopefully we get a couple this week ahead too. Just a heads up for the show. We are just going to go through a lot of the scenarios. There are so many of them. There's some confusion for reasons that we've never seen before. So we're just going to talk about what happens if X team wins, what happens if X team loses.

We'll talk about these games a little bit. I think that some of the games where it does feel like a playoff game, like Packers' Lions, we'll talk about that a little bit more in depth. So we're just going to look at most of the scenarios today. And then obviously we'll have plenty to react to on Sunday night. But let's start with the most important news of the day, the best news of the day.

The updates on Demar Hamlin from below. plenty to react to on Sunday night. But let's start with the most important news of the day,

the best news of the day. The updates on DeMar Hamlin from both the bills and from the doctors

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