2025 AFC East preview
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
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🗓️ 21 August 2025
⏱️ 118 minutes
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Summary
The Bills have won the AFC East five years in a row, and it looks like nothing can stop them from making that six this season. Still, as Robert Mays says at the top of our AFC East preview, there's something for everyone in this division. Can the Bills finally break through this season? Is this the end of the line for this era of the Dolphins? Are the Jets and Patriots really righting their respective ships? Robert, Derrik Klassen and Dave Helman dive deep into all four teams in the AFC East on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Rundown (timestamps are approximate)
3:17 Bills preview
32:52 Dolphins preview
1:01:38 Jets preview
1:30:23 Patriots preview
Host: Robert Mays
Co-Hosts: Derrik Klassen and Dave Helman
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Producer: Michael Beller
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| 1:05.0 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 1:09.3 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 1:10.2 | It's our AFC East preview today. |
| 1:13.7 | Tone to dig into. |
| 1:15.2 | Let's just get to it with me, Derek Klesson, and Dave Hellman right now. |
| 1:25.0 | It's the AFC East today on the athletic football show. |
| 2:18.2 | This division's got a little bit of something for everybody. We got one of the best teams in the NFL, a true blue-blood contender that we know is going to hopefully be around to the end. We have a Miami Dolphins team that we're going to try to figure out over the course of this show. I'm not sure how it's going to go. And then Derek, we have two teams at the bottom of this division that are peddling a lot of hope this time of year with new staffs, a lot of new blood. And I don't know, I think a reasonable amount of excitement about what these new regimes could look like for the Jets and Patriots. I'm very excited to talk about both of those two teams they are both teams that I think if we were doing more of like a July show that is like trying to paint the three year outfit look for these teams, I would be a lot more enthusiastic. I think trying to nail it down for 2025. I think it's a much trickier exercise. Dave, hopefully we're going to keep this not a feature length film today. So we're going to dig into it right now. We're trying to be better about this. Let's start with the Buffalo |
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