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This is the athletic football show.

Welcome to the athletic football show. I'm Robert Mays and joining me tonight. My good friend, Nate Tyson. Nate, how are you?

I'm doing great. That was a fun Sunday of football. Finally, it was fun seeing a full slate of almost like playoff games and just diving into that and just getting juiced up watching all these close games throughout the whole day. Yeah, it was a fun day of football.

We will get to a bunch of stuff. We'll get to the Falcons blowing yet another lead. We will get

to what happened in the Bill's Rams game. Just a ton of stuff to take care of and a ton of stuff

to kind of keep up with today.

It was overwhelming. I just caught myself cackling at times because of how weird and crazy some of

this stuff was. Before we get to any of that, though, let's start with the NFC in general.

I think that that's a way to kind of talk about a lot of the best things that happened today.

If you watch the afternoon slate plus the Sunday night game, I think you could absolutely make a case that we saw the four teams that may very well win the divisions in the NFC. The Packers, the Saints, the Cowboys, and the Seahawks. If you look at the standings right now, I think that's kind of the logical conclusion.

I mean, you throw the bucks in there maybe, who knows what's going to happen with the Rams. But right now, I think those four teams are probably in the driver's seat. So I want to talk about how you'd handicap those four teams right now and what that means, what it's telling us about both those teams and the season. So if you come away from today, and again, we can couch every single one of these conversations with, it's only three weeks,

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