January 8, 2021 - Ted Nguyen

The Late Night Happy Hour with Andy and Brian Kamenetzky

The Rams and Seahawks will meet for the third time this season, but this time it's for the right to advance in the NFC playoffs. Saturday's game in Seattle is expected to be a defensive battle, but will it play out that way?

Ted Nguyen, who covers the NFL for The Athletic, joins the show to preview the game. Will Jared Goff start if he's healthy? Does that mean John Wolford won't play? What kind of Wolford-centric wrinkles might LA have ready?

What other matchups will be key? Can Pete Carroll figure out how to get DK Metcalf loose against Jalen Ramsey? Can they stop Aaron Donald? And who is gonna win, when it's all said and done?

From there, we look at other games around the league. Buffalo looks like the second best team in the AFC, behind Kansas City. But is the gap closer than it appears? Ted believes it might be. And don't sleep on the Steelers, he says. Not to make the Super Bowl, but potentially upset a team that is favored to get there. He explains why.

Which game does he believe could be the best of the weekend? Try Baltimore at Tennessee. And which NFC teams have a real shot to make it all the way through?

Finally, it's a round of starting QB trivia, in which you learn how many people a year are killed by hippos. Trust us, there's a connection.