Key NFL Game in Atlanta: Rookie QB Start Impact on Playoffs

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00:00Doc, significant game in Atlanta. Michael Pinnocks will make a start on the sixth score.

00:05You have Atlanta graded as a 92.8, New York Giants, 75.2.

00:11Beat up on the defensive side of the ball, but Tyrone Tracy's been banged up.

00:15Will he play and will he be 100 percent?

00:18He is playing through the ankle. He's not 100 percent.

00:21This is a matchup of the healthiest team in the league, sixth score wise,

00:25against the least healthy in the league, sixth score wise.

00:29Now, I get it. It complicates things with the rookie quarterback.

00:33Who knows what he's going to do?

00:35But some people in Atlanta have to think he's better than Kirk Cousins to make this move

00:39because they're still in the playoff hunt.

00:41They're one game back of Tampa right now.

00:44But this is our biggest sixth score gross mismatch of the week.

00:48Doc, I just want to ask you.

00:52We've been talking about Kirk Cousins in regards to just how he's looked.

00:56Have you seen anything injury wise that suggests that he wasn't the same quarterback prior to the injury?

01:02And I'm not talking about the Achilles.

01:04Outside of that, any injury or limit in his capacity moving forward?

01:10Didn't really see anything.

01:12Perhaps, you know, a little bit of father time.

01:17Yeah, so we'll see then, I guess, how Kirk looks potentially next year with the new team.

01:22Doc, one spot where you guys are very close with the sixth score seems to be Cincinnati and Cleveland.

01:28Yet, a certain odds maker is seeing things much, much differently there.

01:33Perhaps where you guys are seeing an edge with that matchup?

01:37Yeah, well, Njoku is actually playing after all with his hamstring.

01:41But, you know, a lot of that matchup in odds makers and sharps might be that Cincinnati almost controls its own destiny.

01:50Right?

01:51If they win today, they play Denver, who's the team that they're chasing for the wild card.

01:57And they have to win their final game.

01:59But in the final week of the season, the Broncos play the Chiefs.

02:03So the Bengals are very much alive here.