This weekend in football

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And oh what a weekend it was. From the Dallas Cowboys’ spectacular crash to the grand finale of Detroit’s season-long slow burn to the odd alignment of the playoff fates that put the New York Jets in the position to keep their hated rivals the Patriots out of the playoffs…by losing. It’s complicated. To help us make sense of it all The Takeaway talks to writer and frequent contributor Jeff Beresford-Howe.

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