Welcome to the Athletic Football Show.

I'm Robert Mays.

It is playoff time.

We broke down all five of the games that have happened so far on Wild Card Weekend with me and Derek Klesson.

You know, not the most exciting slate of games.

We had a decent amount of blowouts with the prime teams in the NFL really announcing themselves. But Washington and the Bucks did a very good job of games. We had a decent amount of blowouts with the prime teams in the NFL really

announcing themselves. But Washington and the Bucks did a very good job of salvaging that

slate. We kicked things off with that and then went in reverse chronological order,

breaking down what we saw from each of these games. And then like we've done the last

couple years, doing a little bit of a post-mortem for all the teams that

lost and maybe what their near-term outlook looks like. So very excited to dig into all of that

with Derek Klasin. Let's get to it right now.

All right, Derek. Our first two days of the wildcard round are in the books.

How you feeling? Fantastic. I was a little worried that we were going to get a rough wildcard slate here. But good God, what a final game to send us off into. I guess we still have one more wildcard game. We have the Monday nighter, but a pretty good way to end the Sunday. When we were deciding how we were going to lay out the show, we decided that we were going

to lead with the game that we all just watched, Bucks Washington, which was the Sunday

night game.

And I was doing that because we needed that game to save us after the rest of the way the

weekend had gone.

So we were really rolling the dice on that game being something that was worth leading the show.

Thankfully, Jaden Daniels, the Washington football team, and that game overall delivered.

A monster final drive for Jaden Daniels.

Let's start with just that element of it and Washington kind of rising to that moment.

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