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Welcome to the Athletic Football show. Today is Friday, November 26th. I'm Robert Mays. Fun show for you guys today. Shoka Pottia is going to be joining us a little bit later to do our weekly pick segment. Before we do that, though, I'm thrilled to welcome my good friend, Nate Tice. Nate, how you doing, bud? Doing great. Yeah, here we go. Week 12, I mean, Thanksgiving, it's weird always when I look back like the year before, you know, we keep going on Game Pass when it worked. And you go like, oh, I'm going to click, oh, week was Thanksgiving, week 15, right? And you're like, oh, no, that's actually wait, December. It's like week 12 and Thanksgiving, like some reason, like doesn't match up.

Like, I feel like it's later in the season, but we still got like six weeks to go.

So we're recording this just full disclosure on Tuesday. Obviously, the holiday week is strange.

We didn't want to have to have anyone take time out of their Thanksgiving to record our normal Friday show. If anything changes between now and then, just keep that in mind. A little injury notes. If anything big happens, we'll record something at the top just to make it all clear. But just keep that in mind as you're listening to this. We're going to dig into a Friday for today. less time to go back and watch film we only had one day with the all 22 from last week so we're going to pick four topics we're going to dig into the Eagles run game a little bit later talk about the Niners and just some of the tweaks they've made on offense talk about Mack Jones and this Patriots offense and how they've kind of created this haven for him.

But I want to start with the Rams.

And I want to try to figure out or see if you can figure out what is wrong with the Los Angeles Rams offense.

They're still number one in EPA per play after the last two weeks.

If you look at the aggregate, it's not as if they've fallen off a cliff.

But the last two performances against

the Titans and against the Niners, both of them in prime time, it's taking the shine off

them a little bit. You know, we were so excited about that offense a couple weeks ago on the show

before they played the Titans. I mean, their passing game just seemed like they were doing

anything that they wanted to. And that has fallen back a little bit. So when you're looking at this team, which is about to play a Packers defense that's played much better as of late, what are you watching with this Rams team? And what do you want to see them get back on track? Rewatching that 40-9-ish game was actually, I'm glad I did it like because to hear the moment I mean I'm

with it too is you watch those night games you're just like holy crap the rams have been figured out

or or man they lose Robert Woods and they can't do this or that and I rewatched it yes they had

the early blemishes stafford with whatever the hell that throw was early on on a broken play

he had a couple I mean the one the one to Beckham that got intercepted, obviously, but then the one of that backup receiver on the dig where he just threw it like six feet over his head. It's like, what is going on right now? And I get that he had like pressure a little bit on it, but he makes those throws all the time where he's, he moves. That's one of the best thing he does is he changes his arm slot. He just has that early on sometimes. I think he's one of those guys that gets amped up early on. And some quarterbacks can be like that where they're just like, prime time game, night game. We got OBJ and like the first pass play. They're going to them. like, you know, kind of like, we're going to put a 50 on them, all that stuff. So I think that's a little bit of it.

Rewatching it, though. and like the first pass play they're going to them like you know kind of like we're going to put a 50 on

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