This is the athletic football show.

Welcome to the athletic football show.

I'm Robert Maze.

Join to me today, the athletics own, Lindsay Jones. Lindsay, how are you? I'm good, Robert. I'm Robert Mays. Join to me today. The Athletics Zone,

Lindsay, how are you? I'm good, Robert. I am excited for this week. It's like a big,

really good football week. I have no sense of the NFL schedule. I know that probably sounds strange,

but I don't, if you ask me, what are the good games in week eight? I have no idea. I have absolutely no idea what next week's good games are. So I rolled out of bed on Monday morning and somebody had tweeted about the Titans playing the Steelers. I had no idea they were playing this week. So I looked at the schedule and I was like, oh, all right, I'm very excited about this. So it's a nice way to go about my life.

I'm constantly surprised in a good way about what the next week's games look like, because I never look in advance. Yeah, it's the difference between being, like, covering the league as a whole or being a beat writer. Yeah. Because when you're a beat writer on a specific team, you, like, live and die by that schedule, and you have Marriott's booked out months in advance.

But when you're on the,

when you're covering kind of on a national, specific team, you like live and die by that schedule and you have Marriott's booked out months

in advance. But when you're on the, when you're covering kind of on a national level, like you get so

focused on each week. And it is really fun because, you know, I think last week ended up being

fun. Like Sunday had some really entertaining games. But I'll, you flip that page and all of a

sudden this week is just full of compelling

matchups, really interesting games. And we're at that point in the year right now where it really

feels like we're starting to know who these teams are and really figuring out who is good.

The games feel like the stakes are bigger and that when teams win now or they lose now, that

there's just a lot more at

stakes. So I'm really excited to get into a couple of the big games and a couple of the big matchups. So let's just get right into it this week. Not a ton of news. We had some COVID related stuff that will hit just kind of in the fabric of the show. But I want to talk, you know, get to the games and get in some of those matchups because there are a lot of good ones.

And let's start with what I see is the game of the week.

And that's the Steelers and the Titans. So the NFL networks, Adi Kinkabwala tweeted this earlier today, that this is the fifth time in NFL history, that two undefeated teams were meeting in week seven or later. Obviously, part of that is because these teams

were supposed to play earlier in the year and did not end up playing. But we have two five and

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