2025 versions of 2024 stories
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
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🗓️ 22 July 2025
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Take a moment to think about the unexpected developments that helped define the 2024 NFL season. The Washington Commanders going to the NFC Championship Game. The 49ers missing the playoffs entirely. Jared Verse immediately taking the league by storm. Saquon Barkley changing teams and having a season for the ages. Each of those was a huge story last year that was felt across the league. What might be the 2025 versions of those stories? Robert Mays, Derrik Klassen and Dave Helman dig into that question on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Hosts: Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen
With: Dave Helman
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:00.0 | Two Titans of Silicon Valley, one prize, dominance in the world of artificial intelligence. |
| 0:07.0 | Supremacy is the real story behind the struggle to own our digital future and potentially the very nature of human experience. |
| 0:16.0 | Supremacy by Parmy Olson, described as a riveting tale by the new scientist, winner of the Financial |
| 0:22.6 | Times Business Book of the Year, and now the Waterstone's nonfiction book of the month. |
| 0:27.5 | Listen to the audiobook of Supremacy Now. |
| 0:35.7 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. I'm Robert Mays. Our preview shows are officially here. Training |
| 0:41.9 | camp is here. So we are beginning to look forward to the 2025 season. David Hellman and Derek |
| 0:48.3 | Classen join me for an exercise that I love doing pretty much every single year. I think it's a fun way to frame what we might expect from the upcoming year. |
| 0:56.2 | We dug into the 2025 versions of 2024 things today. |
| 1:01.3 | What that means is that we picked some of the biggest stories, personalities, characters, teams from the 2024 season, |
| 1:08.1 | and tried to predict who this year's version of those things would be. |
| 1:12.8 | We kicked it off with Washington coming out of nowhere to go to the NFC championship game. |
| 1:17.6 | Who is this year's version of that team? |
| 1:19.4 | Who's this year's version of Jared Verse? |
| 1:20.9 | Who's this year's version of Zach Bonn? |
| 1:22.7 | Really enjoyed this conversation with David and Derek. |
| 1:26.0 | Let's get to it right now. |
| 1:32.5 | Music enjoyed this conversation with David and Derek. Let's get to it right now. It is July 21st. We are a couple days away from training camp practices actually kicking |
| 1:38.6 | off for a vast majority of the league. And now I finally feel comfortable kicking off the preview content on the |
| 1:45.7 | athletic football show. Derek, if people pay attention, they can notice that throughout all of June, |
| 1:51.7 | I refuse to do shows that are looking forward to the season. I just feel like we have such a long |
| 1:57.1 | time from the end of July until Labor Day that I'm, I feel like William Wallace and |
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