AFC Wild Card Round Preview
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🗓️ 9 January 2025
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Our Wild Card Weekend preview is so jam-packed, we had to separate it into two episodes. Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen dig into the three AFC games on this episode of The Athletic Football Show. Chargers-Texans is a matchup of arguably the most overachieving and underachieving teams in the playoff field. Steelers-Ravens is a rubber match, sure, but it's also a game between one team that faded down the stretch, and one that proved it is among the Super Bowl favorites. Finally, Broncos-Bills pits two elite units—the Broncos defense and the Bills offense—against one another. Robert and Derrik dive deep and get you ready for Wild Card Weekend on this episode of TAFS.
Rundown
- Chargers-Texans preview
- Steelers-Ravens preview
- Broncos-Bills preview
Host: Robert Mays
Co-Host: Derrik Klassen
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, the Athletic Football Show. I'm Robert Mays. Playoff time is here, and we're double |
| 0:10.2 | dipping. You get twice the bang for your buck with these playoff shows right now. We have two |
| 0:15.7 | playoff previews coming your way on the Athletic Football Show. First off, me and Derek dug into |
| 0:20.6 | the AFC games. It's actually me and Derek dug into the AFC games. |
| 0:21.6 | It's actually worked out very well because the AFC and NFC are also in chronological order. |
| 0:26.6 | The first three games of the weekend are AFC games. |
| 0:29.6 | So that's where we started these conversations. |
| 0:31.6 | We went deep on all three of the AFC playoff matchups. |
| 0:36.6 | We got Chargers, Texans, Ravens Steelers, and Bill's Broncos. |
| 0:41.3 | Two games with some decently big lines, but especially Bill's Broncos. |
| 0:44.9 | I think both Derek and I think this could be a more compelling game than the line might lead you to believe. |
| 0:52.1 | So we hit these games from all of the angles we can imagine. |
| 0:55.2 | Let's get to that conversation I had with Derek Klesson right now. |
| 1:03.4 | All right, Derek, here we go. |
| 1:05.0 | We made it. |
| 1:05.9 | Playoff show number one, notable that it's number one, |
| 1:09.4 | because we have two wild card previews coming because we just didn't think we could fit it all into one show. So we're about to do the AFC wildcard weekend. How are you feeling right now? More excited than I thought, because I feel like leading into the playoffs, like the last three or so weeks of the season. There was so much work of like, |
| 1:28.1 | man, the NFC is going to be so tight. The NFC games are going to be so, so good. And then actually, the more I dug into this AFC slate and really started to think about it, I'm like, I don't know, man. These AFC games are a lot closer and better than I thought maybe they would be three weeks ago, so I'm very excited. |
| 1:25.2 | We have a couple touchdown plus favorites in these games. |
| 1:28.2 | We'll dig into some of the details behind that and why. weeks ago, so I'm very excited. We have a couple touchdown plus favorites in these games. |
| 1:45.1 | We'll dig into some of the details behind that. |
| 1:47.7 | And for at least one of them, I actually am more interested in that game than the |
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