Your Viewing Guide to a Four-Day Football Feast

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🗓️ 27 November 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

We have arrived at Thanksgiving eve. And while you may be getting your stomachs ready for a meal full of all the fixings, don’t forget the annual football feast you will soon digest as well. Between the NFL and college, it’s four days of high stakes games to squeeze-in between all the family festivities. Will Tua Tagovailoa and the Miami Dolphins finally beat the cold weather curse? Have the Chicago Bears and Caleb Williams turned the corner with new Offensive Coordinator Thomas Brown? Who will bolster their playoff case as Texas and Texas A&M face each other for the first time in 13 years? And how’s the Heisman race shaping up? So many things to chew on and we are here to feed those thoughts. Today, Kevin Clark, host of This is Football, helps sift through the playoff implications at both levels and shares his recipe for understanding the difference between matchups of both the savory and unpalatable varieties. Other topics include: Can Tua Tagovailoa and the Dolphins get back into the playoff mix? Does a bad matchup between the New York Giants and Dallas Cowboys mean the NFL should change its approach to Thanksgiving? Is Colorado Buffalo Travis Hunter the Heisman favorite? Could Boise State leapfrog to a first round bye? Should Alabama be on upset alert again? Can Saquon Barkley beat out Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson for the MVP? Can the Baltimore Ravens fix their defensive flaws? Is it possible for Nick Sirianni to ever have job security in Philadelphia? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Kevin Clark, you know, I know plenty of beatwriters who do that Thanksgiving on Friday or Wednesday, right?
0:07.5	Do you follow the whole league, right?
0:09.3	I do.
0:09.7	How does one cover the NFL on Thanksgiving while presumably simultaneously celebrating Thanksgiving?
0:17.8	You root for, and this is the only time I'll say this, you root for bad games.
0:24.6	You root for the 11 a.m. game or the afternoon game to be Cooper Rush, maybe.
0:30.6	Oh, you're in luck.
0:31.5	For years when the lions were bad, that was okay. You could sneak away, have some stuffing.
0:36.8	You can't really have normal holidays when you work in sports because there's too much going on. That same with Christmas. I remember leaving a Christmas dinner early because I had a 5,000 more Derek Carr feature and Derek Carr broke his leg during the game.
0:49.2	Uh-oh. Hold on a minute. Car appears to be in pain again. Yep. An apparent lower leg injury on his right side.
0:56.7	Well, watch his right foot get stuck in the ground.
0:59.2	The fact that both Thanksgiving and Christmas happened right before the NFL playoffs
1:05.4	and right before the college football conference championship games and the playoffs being set.
1:10.9	I'll just say this.
1:12.0	Like the 4th of July is a better holiday for me.
1:14.5	You know, I was covering the Broncos.
1:16.4	This is like years ago.
1:17.9	And John Alway was on the sideline.
1:19.7	And I asked him sort of like tongue and cheek if he had finished his Christmas shopping.
1:23.4	Yeah.
1:24.0	And it was December.
1:25.3	And he said very like dead serious.
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