Episode 11 The NFL Show

It will be time for these twos teams to settle it. He will find towards

the end zone. He throws. Touchdown. Looking down field. One man wrecking

crew. Unbelievable. How did they do that? Caught. Unstoppable.

I want you to eat your hearts out, baby. Earlier this week, our

quarterback talked about being thankful. He said he is thankful he

plays neck to us every day. It took a lot for him to write that down,

print print those out, just to see that he loves us, man. Let's go play

for each other. Everybody touch somebody. Touch somebody. This is a

big one. This is a big one. We've' got to answer. . Get the ball, get

the ball, get the ball! What a throw. Thank you, thank you.

It's the fist time I've ever slid into an end zone. On this special

edition of the NFL Show we will bring you highlights of all three

thanks giving day matches. For starters it's a arrival are you

where humiliation will be the preferred gift for both teams.

That's the Washington Redskins dining with the Dallas Cowboys.

We've got highlights of the big NFC matchup between the Vikings and

lions to see who goes on top. We have the Pittsburgh Steelers up

against the Colts. They are fighting for their play-off lives. Before we

get to the games, to explain why Thanksgiving and football go hand

and hand. Everybody is watching this game. Everybody is sitting at home

and the NFL is the biggest game in America. Why not play thank giving

football and win at a time when everybody is watching. Did you want

to play on Thanksgiving Of course. Everybody was watching. Food and

football goes and had Hanned. You knew everybody wassing watching you

could perform and go back and say - did you see me? Was there more

pressure I think so. Everybody is at home watching these games. People

are eating their food, relacking having a good time of you felt the

need to go out and perform at your highest level. Did you have good

games or bad games on thanksle giving? I'm asking this question

because I know the answer. I played one game against the Denver Broncos,

it was the worst game of my entire career. I got benched after that

game. It was so bad. They had a guy called Graham. They had another

tackle and they came down hill on me. They destroyed me that game. It

wasn't nerves. It was down to how the opposition played? They had my

number that day. I have very bad memories from playing Thanksgiving

football. Did you have good games? Yeah. Of course he did! One game.

Plays against the Broncos, too. So I balance it up and don't do all the

horrible stuff. You had a Thanksgiving meal ahead of this. I

did. I had two kinds of turkeys, the standard with gravy, a BBQ turkey

and sauce, all the fixings, stuffing. I think it was six kinds

of pies. Wow. Thinly sliced. Good night. You know what I had... You

and me both. We will leave fattie to himself and see the fist big game of

Thanksgiving. Since 1966 the Dallas Cowboys have hosted thanks

Thanksgiving day football. It will be their seventh matchup with the

cowboys winning six making this game more traditional than a festive

family argument. We are smoking the turkey right now. With Dallas riding

their longest winning streak in franchise history, you wouldn't bet

against them making that seven to an eight. Washington are on a surge.

Cousins is a man on a mission. Here's Elliott.

How is his Thanksgiving so far? First down inside the 25. Elliott.

Touchdown. Second down in six. Cousins out to

his right. Throws for Jackson. Down in the 39. Cousins has started seven

for eight protected throws. Into Dallas territory. He is down inside

the 30. Davis. He sets up first and goal. One for two.

Beasley. What a throw. Becoming Mr Automatic. From the 28 on first

down, Prescott keeps it. Breaks the tackle. Breaks another. At the

bottom of the screen. Prescott. Steps through and fires. Caught. His

feet were in. It looked good from here. It's a touchdown. To Jackson.

Great throw and a catch in stride. 11-point game. Cousins, for Reid.

The flag is thrown. This went on during the break. This altercation

with a left hand in the face of the rookie Brown. Jackson went over to

the sigh sideline. You can see Jason saying, you just punched him right

in the face. Skins looking for their first up to toch down. They have it.

21 yard run by Elliott. Here is over the middle. Cuts back. Down near the

35. Prescott keeps looking for him. Touchdown, Dallas. They take a shot.

Jackson is wide open. Down field, he's got it. Into the end zone for

the touchdown. Third down and one. Prescott, trying to get loose, flag

is down. Here here's Bryant, inside the five. Touchdown. Dallas. Down by

12. End zone. What a catch, Reid. Touchdown. What an athlete. How

about the Cowboys. He will enjoy their Thanksgiving dinner. 10-1.

57th season of franchise history. The Dallas Cowboys have won ten

straight in a single season. They have done it with a rookie

quarterback and runningback. I've been around some teams, going back

to high school, a year or so in college, but I mean this team is

special. It's not that of not being rattled by penalties, all coin kind

of things allowed this team to believe in themselves. I can't say

I've been around a team as special as this team. As we set here in our

set, which is meant to indicate America, it feels like being in a

ski lodge, that was a perfect game? It was good, exciting. What you

wanted. You wanted two great offenses going at it. It's what you

want when you are sitting around having a good meal. If felt like

every time Prescott or Cousins had the ball that something was going to

happen on every single play? That is what the NFL is all about. They were

up-and-down the football field. They are two of the elite quarterbacks in

football put on a performance. Talk about Williams and this, it was a

sensational piece of skill to keep his feet in bounds for the

touchdown. How often would receivers, tight ends practice this

thing? They do it every day in practice.

You see how important the play is they set up cones close to the

sideline. Come out of a break. They do it over and over and over again

because it counts. Great play by him. It's supposed to be hard. If

you want to easy, you would go play rugby. This is the NFL. It was great

play by Terence Williams. They practice it week in and week out,

every single day. It's called the toe tap. They catch the ball,

practice getting their feet down. That is it. We have spoken a lot

about Prescott and about Cousins. He went for 449-yards in a losing team,

will give Redskins hope for the remainder of the season? Without a

doubt. The question mark with who is your quarterback for the future, who

you will invest in. They found him. The offense is dynamic with so many

weapons hitch has come on as the season progressed. We have a term in

the NFL called "back up the Brinks truck" that is what they will do.

They put all the money in it. They will back up the Brinks truck for

this man. They will have to pay him a tonne of money. Great quarterback.

It's vulgar to talk about money. He will get an awful lot of money

because of his contractual situation. Prescott, who is a rookie

doing amazing things, will have to stay on his rookie contract for the

next three years before he hits the big time? Even if he wins the

Stouper Bowl. That is why drafting in the NFL is so important. If you

get young guys at a set cap rate and get them for two, three or four

years, you can can buy the expensive free agents and build your team up.

That is the great part about the NFL. Not good for the young

quarterbacks. There was a time when they got paid an enormous amount of

money. They changed it. Young quarterbacks are getting paid next

to nothing in compared to other quarterbacks. They aren't getting

paid any more. The second game is the Vikings against the Ly ONS. The

lions changed American life by hosting a game on the last Thursday

of November be they introduced the NFL to Thanksgiving and they also

broadcast it live over the radio to the nation. On this holiday football

was brought to the masses, a tradition was important born and

Detroit hosted Thanksgiving ever since. On Thursday it was battle for

the top of the NFC North. The Lions have been one of the most exciting

teams. The Describingings had five wins in a you ro, then had four

losses in a row. Last week got back to winning ways. It's more fun than

the last four weeks. Let's go. The defense, three overall. Second

and nine. First down to the auto 50. They are going to go up top here.

Down the open. The touchdown. Here is an 2nd and 8. He threw it. They

didn't see it on the field. The field are calling it a fumble. He

runs with it. That's a fumble. I'm not so sure. After review, the

ruling on the field has been changed. It is an incomplete pass.

3rd and 8. Up in the air and intercepted. That is Quinn taking

off down the sideline. We have a flag back there where the pass was

thrown. Interference, defense. Automatic. First down. He gets the

handle. The end zone 678 touchdown. They hand off to Riddick. Tate, all

alone. Tackle. Finally down at the 29.

Bradford, down the sideline. Pulled down. He gets to his feet. The

Lions, as always, in a close game. There is Bradford amateur McKinnon

with an open field. No one near him. He gets inside the 30. Patterson

takes it on the reverse. Wow. Beautiful run by Patterson. 3rd 7,

they backed off. It was picked up, then he lost the football at the

end. Look at this. Slade went down the field, turned back in.

The Vikings have no time-outs, they cannot call one at the last second.

The Lions want to sweep the series over the Vikings. 16 - 13. What did

you see in the last play, did it surprise you by dropping the corner

down? They trapped it and it made a good play. What were your keys? What

defense were you in? I can't tell you about it. Tell me as much as you

can. No. All right, guys, thank you. Detroit's resilience is remarkable,

isn't it? Great fortitude, they come back and win all the time. They have

a great quarterback, great defense, those guys are playing good

football. They are called a clutch team and Stafford is a clutch fought

back. That's not a phrase we really use over here, so what does that

mean? That means you find a way to win and what he's done, because of

those fourth-quarter comebacks, he has the team believing they can do

it so defensively you are like we need to

get our quarterback the ball back, he will win the game. It's about

belief. Definitely. Scientists are saying there's a genetic trait, I'm

serious, that clutch is a genetic trait. When all the chips are down

some people perform better than other people. I don't know if this

is true for a fact. I don't think I'm a clutch quarterback, but I

think clutch quarterbacks. I've played against one, Eli Manning, and

I promise you, he wasn't the best quarterback all year but when

everything was on the line, say the game was tight, down by three

points, he would come back every single time. Is he still clutch,

even though he might not be coming back for a period of games? Yes. You

keep the clutch genetic trait, do you? Yes, it doesn't go anywhere. If

you are sorry broad player and by the end of the game you see things

over and over again, you know what to expose and become a clutch guy.

Are you winding is up! No, it's a genetic trait, clutch. And sometimes

not sure whether to believe you not! One thing on Detroit and the play

that won it, the sleigh interception that led to the kick, you are saying

that one of the reasons they are able to do that is they know how

Bradford, the Minnesota quarterback, operates in the length of time he

takes to get the ball out. Yes, we know by the offensive line and

injuries they've had he doesn't have a lot of time to sit back and throw

the ball. He has to get the ball out quick and the fans know the quarter

bail is going away and picked up the short route so he made himself

invisible and came back in the set and picked off the ball. Its timing.

The Vikings had a great start of the season and now they've lost five of

the last six. Next up it's the Cowboys, it's a game we will bring

you next Saturday. Do you worry for the Vikings, particularly because

they have the inform Cowboys next? I did worry for them but they had

Jason Bell, they might be able to pull this one off. You are a good

friend, I appreciate it. He's a good friend, I'm not sure about that --

his stories, I'm going to Google clutch gene. Let's see how the NSC

shaped up after Thanksgiving. Detroit have a gap over Minnesota in

the North and ahead of games in the south and west this weekend, Atlanta

lead the way in their division and Seattle are top of a weak NFC West.

The playoff picture at the moment, Dallas and Seattle will be the top

two seeds and the playoff games, the wild card games, with the Redskins

go to the Lions and the Giants at the Falcons. Let's discuss the NFC

playoff picture, as food has arrived,

the Falcons. Let's discuss the NFC playoff picture, as food has

arrived, although I'm not sure it's being dished out fairly. You two all

right with that, while I have three mini pecan pies? Enjoy yourselves,

took in. We've spoken about Dallas and about the Redskins, the Giants

sandwiched in between them in the NFC East and seven and three they

will fancy their chances of being in the playoffs. They did what they had

to do, they needed a defense that could close out games and they've

improved well. The other two divisional leaders, Seattle and

Falcon. Seattle is the best team in the NFC. Still, despite Dallas? They

are better than the dollars Cowboys. The Falcons haven't been playing

well of late but they are explosive and are coming together. Are you

going to persist with Seattle being better than Dallas all the way

through to the end of the season # if people didn't watch as last

season, this is what happened with Carolina and Denver and annoyingly,

you were proved right. I will be proved right again. I'm always

right! LAUGHTER

That's what worries me about the clutch thing, as soon as I Google it

I know you will be right on that as well. There was a third Thanksgiving

game, this took place in the AFC, Pittsburgh Steelers went to the

Indianapolis Colts. We can see what happened now. It felt throughout the

course of it very comfortable for Pittsburgh. Yes, when Big Ben has

his rhythm it's very hard to stop that offense. With Andrew luck out,

the Colts didn't have their top offensive player. May be of the

field goal had gone over, things might have been different, there

might have been a confidence boost for Indianapolis but Pittsburgh have

so many weapons. This is the Pittsburgh Steelers offense we

wanted to see the entire year. To be fair to the Indianapolis Colts if

they'd have converted by the goal line this game would have been a lot

closer than it turned out to be, but overall Pittsburgh rolled over. It

says something about how Indianapolis played that one of

their best blaze was the fake with Conor McGregor celebration

afterwards. It's a great throw. He could be a quarterback for the New

England Patriots. You knew I was going to do that. Three for the

touchdown, did he struggle generally in this game? He couldn't get his

rhythm and it's hard, I short awake, not a lot of time to prepare. We

should mention that, if you come on Thursday to play, that gives you a

lot less time to work with your offense. You've only had a couple of

days to get prepared. They might have known that Andrew wasn't going

to play, it's not enough time to get prepared for a football game. Let's

go back to Pittsburgh. They've been a bit hit and miss this season

because at the start of the season a lot of people would have tipped them

to be one of the Super Bowl favourites, if not the Super Bowl

favourite may be coming through the AFC. What's gone wrong for them and

what could go right on the second half of the season, when you see

Roethlisberger to Brown, like we saw in this game? Non-defense they've

always been able to stop the route and this year they haven't been as

effective. They've been getting dominated on the run game and that's

not like the Steelers. They are an inconsistent team, which is

uncharacteristic of a Pittsburgh team. Very inconsistent,

Roethlisberger is coming off injury for the past couple of weeks. He's

not finding his rhythm. Do you think the key will be, obviously the key

will be Roethlisberger staying fit, because similar thing happened last

season. He does pick up injuries. He's a big man. Heeds its back there

and takes a lot of hits, let the routes develop downfield but he has

to stay healthy. The running back position is important. He's the best

running back, if he continues to play at a high level that will ease

the pressure off Roethlisberger. I will let you took into your food

now. Get your head out of my camera shot!

LAUGHTER There are some to get things in

television. You can eat the food, don't stick your head in front. You

have to teachers! Let's take a look at the rest of the AFC picture. New

England continued to lead the East with an eight and two record, whilst

Pittsburgh's win at Indianapolis puts then clear at the top of the

North. The Texans lead airtight South division come whilst the

Raiders are on top of the most competitive division in the

conference, the AFC West. The playoff picture, New England and

Oakland are the two strongest sides, which means in wild card weekend the

two divisional leaders, Huston and Pittsburgh, would meet Denver and

Kansas City and the Broncos would be other Texans, the would be at the

Steelers as things stand. Let's go behind-the-scenes now. One of the

great things about the NFL is getting into the locker room and

this is what happened this week. There's nothing better than seeing

80,000 dead silent when you walk on. What's up, man?

Knew the man, you the man. Oh, you the man. I don't have fancied

handshake, but nice job. We poured out every ounce of everything had.

Celebrate, celebrate, celebrate! Everyone get in on the high five

party. Shutdown he is a wizard, he's the best in the world. You are the

best. I told you I was grateful for everyone of you. You see how we play

as a family. You see what we can do as a family. It's all about others.

Get the ball back to the coach. Let's take a look at the remaining

week 12 fixtures and everybody plays on Thanksgiving weekend. There are

no byes-macro. The Giants will have a good chance to close the gap

against Alys Assed Baig go back to Cleveland. -- Assed Baig -- as

dollars go to Cleveland. NFC South, it's tightly that Lunt and Tampa Bay

and New Orleans and the Carolina Panthers as well. Atlanta host

Arizona. Seattle go to Tampa Bay. I suppose all four NFC tags south

teams could lose them. There's a chance it could happen, there are

favourable matchups but everybody can lose. If you are looking at

them, at Lantra tome to Arizona will be favourite to win. I'm not sure

about that, I think Arizona Cardinals are desperate football

team. They will come up with their a game, you would expect Atlanta to

win but it's not going to be a pushover. The new liens at homes to

the Rams? New Orleans have this one. With the

Panthers at the Rangers we can look at AFC West, but with the Raiders at

home, would you expect them to beat Panthers? The Raiders know how to

win. Just win, baby. Kansas City going to Denver. They have the

surprising defeat at home to Tampa Bay Buccaneers last weekend and now

they have the difficult job. This is a huge game in that division.

Whoever wins this game should be on top of the division. I expect the

Denver Broncos to pull this off. Kansas City have a better shot

especially as Marcus Peters plays well. Do you believe that? I believe

it. New two sometimes... Defensively they can pull it off. They had a big

injury to a big player. I normally get a good sleeping in that game. As

soon as Kansas City plays. I'm going to watch you two bowl now, speaking

of sleep. I can win that. Yes. That's it from others for tonight.

We'll show you the highlights of Thanksgiving weekend on BBC Two on

Tuesday night and next Saturday, highlights from Minnesota against

Dallas and we'll be there for that game. We entered this evening with

the worrying news that Osi was right and I have found an article that

says scientists have announced they successfully mapped the clutch gene,

which is hugely disappointing. But now we'll find out which of these

two is the clutch tenpin bowlers. Good night. Please fall over, please

fall over! I didn't hit one. Two skittles

between both of you! Look how you are celebrating. My hip locked up.

# yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Thanksgiving, the start of the

holiday season, like the fire, spark up the lights, think of nothing but

peace and goodwill. Here's a fire lit the NFL way. The lights of late

November in football. And here's all the peace and goodwill you could

ever wish for. Thank you. Thank you. And thank you. Only in the NFL.

Brilliant. That was truly horrendous. He loves when I fail.