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I am Robert Mays, a fantastic week five slate, a long week five slate.

We talked about this at the top of the show, but the fact that we started at 9.30 a.m. Eastern,

and we had a weather delay that pushed us to like 1 a.m.

Eastern. And it was a breakneck pace the entire time. You got to love it. But it makes for a very

long day. We talked about the Ravens Bengals shootout, which is probably the highlight of the entire

day. A big win for the Houston Texans that stifled Josh Allen in a way that we really have not seen this year. And really, in most points of Josh Allen's career over the last three or four years. Talked about Caleb Williams' big day. Derek made me talk about Caleb Williams' big day. Enjoy that conversation. Chatted about what the hell is going on in the NFC West after today, that bizarre Cardinals

Niners game, the Seahawks getting beat up by the New York Giants, and a little bit about

Jaden Daniels, what he continues to do, some Colts Jags excitement, and a few more nuts

and bolts about what went down in week five.

So let's get to our conversation with Derek.

Music what went down in week five. So let's get to our conversation with Derek. Well, Derek, that was an exhausting day of football. That's what I'll start things off with.

Not only are we recording this at about midnight central time, so almost 1 a.m. Eastern time. But our day started at

8.30 p.m. Central time for me. So we're going about 16 hours straight of football, and that would

be okay if the games themselves weren't exhausting. I mean, there were so many pockets of today

where there was like four games that were close and there were crazy comebacks.

I don't, there was really the only time I think today where you could actually rest a little bit was probably in the first half of the second slate where there wasn't anything insane going on.

But other than that, this was the day that was really going to test your nerve

overall. This was the most wire-to-wire Sunday we've gotten the entire year. I mean,

the first time we're getting a game over in England this year, starting it, yeah, for me,

at 6 a.m., which because it doesn't go as late for me, it's not as bad on that end, but on the front end today was tough, like having to wake up at 6 a.m. to watch Sam Darnold and a hobbled Aaron Rogers was certainly interesting. But then that game kept you interested the whole time, like you said, that first morning slate was every single game. It seemed like it was completely insane until the end. We got that mini reprieve and

then all the afternoon games also went down to the wire. So it was just you had to be on your toes.

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