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Welcome to the athletic football show.

I'm Robert Mays.

I'm joining me tonight.

It's my good friend.

Nate Tysayne, how you doing, buddy?

I'm doing very well.

Much like myself in high school, college, and even now, the bills really wanted to cram in everything they had to do on Sunday night before Monday morning kicked in.

How long have you been sitting on that one?

Just for the last like 10 minutes?

For the last about 30 seconds, as I just sat here. And as the lo-fi beats are playing before we go live. And I just, yeah, it kind of came to me. Yeah, cram it on a Sunday night. That's my way to describe how the bills play today. But I also, I'm doing very, very well. Hope you're doing well as well. I am a crazy week. We've got a lot of stuff to dig into.

Not a week that lends well to our tidy little boxes that we like to have. So we're going to try to

figure out the best ways to tackle a very strange week in the NFL. Let's start with the game that

we just watched, or at least the last part of the game that we just watched. The bills escape

what would be a pretty brutal loss to tie. watched, or at least the last part of the game that we just watched, the bills escape what

would be a pretty brutal loss to Tyrod Taylor and the corpse of the New York Giants offense that

we've watched for a good majority of the year. Any concern about Buffalo after a game like this,

or is just one of those weird game, weird night,

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