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Welcome to the athletic football show.

I'm Robert Mays.

Joining me today.

It's my good friend Nate Tyson.

How you doing, buddy?

Doing very well. Starting the show as I'm cleaning up my desk throughout some trash as you did that intro. So my apologies of anyone to heard that, but I'm doing very, very well. This is what used to be a nice halfway point of the season that is now turned into just below, just a tease. But so great. So many kind of like little mini storylines happening, which I think we're diving into a little bit today. And actually, last couple of weeks, I think we're starting to hit on some stuff. Stuff starting to come to light. That Raven's performance wasn't out of nowhere, guys. So I think this just, I'm very excited. Long story short, I'm very excited.

A couple big trend things we're going to hit on the course of the show. It's Halloween weekend, though. Do you have any Halloween weekend plans? Feels like a big weekend for you. Doing a little theme costume stuff with my son and my wife. We're doing a little Wizard of Boss theme. Oh, it's great. I love it. He is the lion.

I'm the Tin Man. And yeah, yeah. So, and my wife is the scarecrow, actually. Not, not subverting a little expectations there. Yeah, I like that. I like that. That's fun. No, no, but yeah, just hanging. Not too much. I think trying to hang some friends. I'm watching my son for a lot.

My wife has some photography.

She does.

So I will be, it's a lot of dad's son bonding time on Halloween weekend when I have it any other way. I might have to show him like the thing or something like that. It's his favorite poster that I have in my office. I was going to say it's his favorite movie. No, no no no no no it's i have a thing poster and he loves it just because of the coloration on it

yeah yeah yeah yeah. So he, like, loves, like, messing with it and stuff. So I don't know. So maybe in about 15 years. Like you alluded to, we're getting toward the midway point of the season. We're creeping toward it. And I think some stuff is starting to come to light with specific teams, but also league-wide,

that's starting to feel real, where we have enough of a sample size where it's worth sinking our teeth into some of this.

And the topic that we wanted to tackle today is the offensive struggles that we have seen in the NFL through the first seven weeks of the season.

Look at any stat that you want to.

Points per game, EPA per play, success rate, explosive play rate.

All of them are at nearly historic lows.

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