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NFL Week 7 Around The Couch

·1 hr 26 min·5 clips

Replay assist has cut down on blown calls and made Trevor Lawrence’s illegal formation flag feel correct.

Around The Couch opens in full group-text mode. Brett is back, the show stays loose, and the first stretch is loaded with plugs, side chatter, and a quick welcome-back for the returning voice in the room. The NFL talk kicks off with the Chargers barely surviving and the Cowboys defense catching all the smoke. The Chiefs upending Jared Goff gets the expected attention, while Cam Scadaboo earns a blunt, enthusiastic nod. The Vikings get mentioned only to be reminded they are off, which is exactly the kind of throwaway gag this panel likes. From there the conversation swings toward the Coats and whether they are actually legit. That question turns into a longer argument about teams, coaches, and how fast people want to panic. The Jets are the setup. Aaron Glenn is the example. The panel starts building a list of first-year head coaches who stumbled out of the gate at 0-6 and still became something. Zach Taylor, Dan Campbell, Kyle Shanahan, Bill Walsh, and Jimmy Johnson all get pulled into the same hopeful pile. The point stays simple: early disaster does not always mean the whole thing is broken. After that, the episode finally lands on the picks board. Records get read aloud, compared, and used as ammo. Solo still leads the group, even after everyone else has spent the season chasing him. Brett talks through his pattern of hot starts and late-game fadeouts. The others admit the standings are too close to be comfortable but too bad to brag about. They also kick around strategy, including the idea of leaving some late-game picks blank so the penalty disappears. Primetime games get their own collective groan after another rough stretch of misses. The show closes the only way it can: with jokes, scorekeeping, and the hope that next week finally turns the season around.

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A loose NFL hangout anchored by weekly picks, with football talk and a few detours.

This episode settles into a loose NFL roundtable built around the weekly picks. The Chargers barely survive, the Cowboys defense takes heat, the Chiefs upend Jared Goff, and Cam Scadaboo gets a nod, so the football stays front and center even when the talk drifts a little.

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Press play if you want NFL picks with jokes, bad records, and the kind of room that keeps score out loud.

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