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The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL

Conference Championship Games Recap: Patriots and Seahawks advance to Super Bowl LX

The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL

The Athletic

Sports, Nfl, Robert Mays, Nfl Draft, Football, Football,

4.63.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2026

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

New England Patriots. Seattle Seahawks. Super Bowl LX. Meet us in San Francisco. But before that, join Robert Mays, Derrik Klassen, and Dave Helman as they recap the the Patriots' AFC Championship Game win over the Denver Broncos, and the Seahawks' NFC Championship Game triumph over the Los Angeles Rams, on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.


Rundown (timestamps are approximate)

3:15 Seahawks win thriller over Rams, advance to Super Bowl LX

49:08 Patriots take down Broncos in the snow, get back to Super Bowl


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Host: Robert Mays

Co-Hosts: Derrik Klassen and Dave Helman

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Athletic Football Show.

0:05.7

I'm Robert Mays.

0:07.5

Just buzzing after that NFC championship game, man.

0:10.4

It was everything you could have hoped it would be between arguably the two best

0:14.6

teams in the league, teams that have played two bangers of games coming into this one,

0:18.7

and just a back and forth phenomenal football game to

0:23.3

decide who gets to go to the Super Bowl out of the NFC. And that team is the Seattle Seahawks

0:28.3

who have had a staggeringly impressive year. Just on both sides of the ball, everything they seem to

0:34.5

do in the offseason turn to gold. And so many of those moves came up huge for them in a back and forth game against the

0:41.8

ramp.

0:42.0

So absolutely love digging into that one.

0:43.9

I mean, we spent a ton of time on that game.

0:46.0

I'm not sure how we couldn't based on how that whole thing went.

0:49.6

ASC, sort of a different story.

0:51.8

A very strange, ugly game influenced by the weather to pretty brutal offensive performances. We mentioned it when we were breaking it down. I mean, there were like three or four plays from the Patriots offense that ultimately swing that game for them. You can count them on one hand. It doesn't take a lot to work through those. But a ton of credit to the Patriots for the season that they've had.

1:10.9

We will see them in the Super Bowl.

1:12.7

A rematch of my first Super Bowl,

1:15.1

which is after the 2014 season,

1:16.6

the Patriots and the Seahawks.

1:18.2

Very different feel to these teams.

1:19.9

A wonderful feel to these games.

1:21.9

Let's dig into it with me,

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