Championship Round Preview: Key matchups for Chiefs-Ravens and Lions-49ers, a potentially paradigm-shifting game for Lamar Jackson, and more; Plus, Chargers hire Jim Harbaugh and more from the coaching carousel
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🗓️ 26 January 2024
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
Chiefs-Ravens has the look of an all-time AFC Championship Game. Lions-49ers features an up-and-coming team that has announced itself to the league going up against a team we've seen in this spot multiple times in recent years trying to finally break all the way through. No matter what happens on Sunday, it's shaping up to be one great day of football. Robert Mays and Nate Tice preview the AFC Championship Game and NFC Championship Game on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
The guys also discuss Jim Harbaugh to the Chargers, Raheem Morris to the Falcons, and Dave Canales to the Panthers.
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| 0:47.7 | Welcome, the athletic football show. |
| 0:50.0 | I'm Robert Mays, joining me today. |
| 0:51.6 | It's my good friend, Nate Tice. |
| 0:52.6 | Hey, how you doing, buddy? |
| 0:53.8 | Doing very well. I actually watched a documentary last night. I've seen it before. It's my good friend, Nate Tice. Hey, how you doing, buddy? Doing very well. |
| 0:54.6 | I actually watched a documentary last night. |
| 0:56.8 | I've seen it before. |
| 0:57.6 | It's the second time I watched it, maybe third. The Tony Hawk documentary until the wheels fall off. I haven't seen it, but I've heard such good things about it. It's very, very good. Very, very well done. Almost hit me differently now that I'm a dad. |
| 0:51.6 | First time I watch a post dad ship and dad hood. |
| 0:55.5 | And yeah, I really, it strikes home. |
| 0:57.5 | Anybody has HBO Mac. me differently now than my dad. First time I watch a post dad ship and dad hood. And yeah, |
| 1:12.5 | I really, it strikes home. Anybody has HBO Max or just Max now. I highly, |
| 1:16.6 | I highly recommend it. It might be on other streaming networks, but highly highly recommend it. |
| 1:20.1 | But I'm doing very well. Other than Tony Hawk and, you know, reliving the 80s and 90s, |
| 1:25.3 | we got championship weekend. And I am fired up for championship weekend. So excited to be here. I'm pumped. We had two really good games. So much to dig into with those games. Before we do that, though, we're going to talk about the coaching carousel and some of the news that's trickled out over the last couple of days. First things first, though, I wanted to say happy birthday to a listener of ours named Matthew Deck. |
| 1:48.6 | His brother sent me a message and he said for his 50th birthday, could you say, |
| 1:49.6 | happy birthday to my brother. |
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