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NFL Week 12 Picks – Around the Couch

·1 hr 11 min·4 clips

The Eagles are 8-2, but no one on offense is top ten in passing, rushing, or receiving.

Around The Couch opens with a rapid-fire stretch of NFL headline jokes and callbacks, then quickly pivots into a check-in on where the hosts watched the games on Sunday. Solo says he watched them from home, in bed and in the living room, because he wasn't feeling that great, which gives the opening a tired, slightly funny edge. From there, the episode widens into the bigger shape of the season. The Bears sitting first is met with open skepticism, and the panel talks through whether that spot is real or just temporary noise. The playoff picture comes up too, with the hosts making clear that the top of the division is still wide open. The show also spends time on the pick race. Solo is still leading, Axel is down by six, Brett by seven, and Andy by thirteen, with a push from the Packers-Giants game noted along the way. That record talk gives the episode a steady spine even as the conversation keeps drifting into jokes and side remarks. The week's bye teams get named and set aside: the Broncos, Dolphins, Chargers, and Commanders. That clears the way for the feature game of the week, Eagles at Cowboys, which becomes the main anchor for the middle of the episode as the panel works through its three questions and picks. The back half keeps the same unruly rhythm. The hosts interrupt themselves, correct each other, and circle back to the same points from different angles, including a running joke about the pick zone. The episode does not try to sound like a polished betting preview; it feels like a room of people who have watched too much football to stay on script. By the close, the conversation drifts into Mayor of Kingstown, a few last jokes, and even some Latin wordplay. That is the shape of Around The Couch: football first, but never football alone, with the room's personality doing as much work as the analysis.

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A loose NFL hangout that moves from headline riffing to picks, playoff talk, and an Eagles-Cowboys feature game.

Around The Couch reads as a familiar NFL hangout, opening with a quick run of league jokes and headlines before moving into three questions, picks, playoff talk, bye-week discussion, and an Eagles-Cowboys feature game.

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You want NFL recap and weekly picks with live, loose, joke-heavy banter instead of polished breakdowns.

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