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Welcome to the athletic football show.

I'm Robert Mays.

Join me tonight.

It's my good friend Nate Tyson.

How you doing, buddy?

I'm doing very well. I know you're trying to be very efficient. Joining me tonight. It's my good friend Nate Tyson. Nate, how you doing, buddy? I'm doing very well.

I know you're trying to be very efficient with your words tonight. High success rate for Robert with his words tonight. But doing very well. It used to be the quarter pole of the NFL season, always games wise. And now it's not. And it's just a little bit less. but still feels like a checkpoint at least four weeks in getting a little bit more feel for the season

but doing very well fun day today if it's not a little bit less, but still feels like a checkpoint, at least four weeks in, getting a little bit more feel for the season, but doing very well. Fun day today. If I sound like I'm underwater, I apologize, but the excitement of today and of these games is going to get me through. I'm very excited about it. Let's start. I mean, we'll have a lot of time this week to get into the Jets Chiefs game. I think there'll be a lot of opportunities to discuss it. A weird game, kind of a strange game, some really nice moments from Zach Wilson, some pretty not nice moments from the refs. So a lot to dig into, a lot to chew on, but we're going to save that for a little bit later in the week. Some of Holmes heat checks. Yeah. Yeah. It was just a strange night overall. So we're going to get to that, but we will not be hitting on that tonight because we have so much other stuff to cover.

And let's start with the most impressive performance of the day, the statement performance of the day.

What an outing from the Buffalo Bills.

When I went back and rewatch the game and even watching it in real time today,

it just felt like the ideal version of this Bill's team, where you have the splash plays from the quarterback when you need them, you have that anaconda-like defense that we've talked

about in the past, every element of what the bills can be at their best. They were today

against the Dolphins team that had been lighting up the league for the first three weeks. So I can't really say enough about how the bills played pretty much for the entire first three quarters in this game today. Yeah, I was, I mean, just looking up right away, felt like for the first quarter, for the very least, the first quarter and a half, them just going blow for blow, the dolphins in the bills. I was starting to look up like most first downs in a game, most points scored in the game. I'm starting to look those up because that's kind of how I started feeling about that game. It felt like we were on that track for sure. Oh yeah. I was like, how, yeah, how did Rams chiefs go again? But they, I was just watching it and blown away and just, I think I test will tell you what Josh Allen felt like today. And this is his best form and best form of this bill's offense. And I think it's again, you want to see this is exactly, they're showing the spaces and the areas that you can attack this Dolphins defense day.

This is what we talked about on our Thursday show, that like if the bills do these kind of newfangled things that they're leaning into and they actually do them well, like they have been this season, like they're going to tear them up.

And sure enough, if that's what you saw, you saw the play action passes, you saw the run game.

You saw Stefan Diggs getting targeted all on the left-hand side

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