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Week 5 Sunday Night Freestyle: The cruelty of the football gods

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🗓️ 12 October 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The football gods give and the foot ball gods take away. That was as apparent as ever on Sunday in Week 5 as Alex Smith made his triumphant return to action after nearly two years away from the sport as a result of a gruesome leg injury. On the other side of that coin, only hours later, Dak Prescott suffered a gruesome ankle injury of his own and is now out for the season.Terez Paylor & Charles Robinson recap all of the Week 5 games up until Sunday night including the Dallas Cowboys' pyrrhic victory against the New York Giants, the Las Vegas Raiders stunning the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs, Russell Wilson and the Seattle Seahawks adding another exhibit to his MVP case against the Minnesota Vikings and the Atlanta Falcons cleaning house after suffering yet another loss, this time to the surprisingly frisky Carolina Panthers.Stay up to date with the latest NFL news and coverage from Yahoo Sports on Twitter @YahooSportsNFL.Follow Charles @CharlesRobinsonFollow Terez @TerezPaylorTag your questions for the guys on Twitter with #YahooNFLPodcastCheck out the rest of the Yahoo Sports Podcast family at https://apple.co/2Abi8jk or at yahoosports.com/podcasts See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0

Yes, sir, yes sir. Welcome to the Yahoo Sports NFL Podcast.

0:10.0

Yes, sir. Welcome to the Yahoo Sports NFL Podcast. I'm Yahoo Senior

0:14.2

NFL writer Torez Paler. Here my main man, a fellow C. You know,

0:17.5

C. You know, I'm a fellow C. You know,

0:20.8

you know, how cruel are the football gods, man. On the same day, we get the story to year as far as motivational,

0:26.7

uplifting, comeback of Alex Smith, we get an unbelievably brutal injury to Dak Press Scott.

0:35.8

What was it like watching this game for you live?

0:38.0

Because for me, it was just brutal.

0:39.8

Yeah, I was stunned.

0:40.8

I knew instantaneously when I saw it even though he grabbed his calf I saw the direction of his foot and all I you know instantly I thought it's a dislocation, he's dislocated his foot.

0:54.0

And then when they got closer and then they showed the replay I was like that's definitely a fracture.

0:59.6

And I got to be completely honest with you like I don't really get choked up like watching in the past there have been injuries that have occurred that I've seen and I haven't really gotten choked up. I don't know what it was about this one. I think it was because you see

1:14.0

Jason Garrett, you know, Pat Mike McCarthy on the back and you're like, this dude, you know,

1:18.8

got fired for that guy and this just doesn't even matter right now. All the, you know, both teams there.

1:24.0

And then when DAC, they started to roll away

1:26.9

and you just saw the look on his face

1:29.1

and he's crying and you're like, you know, this is just gutted, like it's gutted, you're completely gutted.

1:38.0

And it was remarkable to me looking on Twitter and seeing like even opposing fans you know who hate the

1:43.4

cowboys were like well this this just is

1:46.8

I mean here's why like I didn't care about the coaches like I you know

1:50.8

what got me was like man here's a dude that was betting on himself right and like we we

1:56.3

encourage people to bet on themselves in society right hey believe in yourself go for your dream, like trust in your belief, go do it.

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