Around The Couch: An NFL Podcast · DVR Podcast Network

ATC Thanksgiving Spectacular 2025

·1 hr 49 min·5 clips

One host says the Bears are “fool’s gold” despite a likely playoff berth.

Around The Couch starts by recapping Week 12 and teeing up Week 13. The mood stays loose. The hosts are live on YouTube because Axel is out, and the show jokes through his absence while he is off watching Stranger Things and deciding which Jets jersey to wear. The opening also plugs the DVR Podcasting Network and mentions other coverage the group has going, including Mayor of Kingstown and a Stranger Things podcast that may be in the works. Then the football talk takes over. A 21-point comeback in Big D becomes the first big reference point, and the panel uses it to ask whether the Rams are the only team that really feels elite. Baker's injury enters the conversation. So does the question of whether there is any real optimism in Falcon Town. The Colts-Chiefs game gets its own frustrated treatment, with the loss framed as a team getting outplayed in a way that lands like a bad hand at the table. At one point the crew compares it to James Bond playing cards with LeChief. That is the level. Shador also gets a chaotic shout from the room as the Raiders get it in the behind. The conversation keeps drifting toward the playoff picture. The Giants are identified as the first team officially eliminated from contention. Several other teams are still hanging around the edge of elimination, which gives the panel plenty to swat at. The hosts then start poking at point differential and whether it should really count the same when teams pile up huge wins over bad opponents. A stat rant follows. It is not especially tidy, but it is grounded in the same fan logic that runs through the rest of the show. The group keeps correcting itself, laughing, and circling back. That rhythm is the point. The episode ends with Thanksgiving wishes, more picks talk, and a promise to return next week for Week 13 and the Week 14 picks. It feels like a room full of people who know the league too well to be calm about it. The final beat lands on that same mix of affection, irritation, and shared fandom that drives the whole show.

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Loose NFL banter that still keeps the stakes in view.

Around The Couch starts with the 21-point comeback in Big D and keeps returning to the same live wire: are the Rams really the only elite team left?

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For a Thanksgiving-week NFL hangout with a 21-point Cowboys comeback, playoff elimination talk, and Week 13 on deck.

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