Conference Championship Sunday Preview: Can the Bills finally slay the Chiefs dragon?
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🗓️ 24 January 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Chiefs-Bills for the AFC Championship? Yeah, sure, anyone could've seen that coming back in August. Commanders-Eagles for the NFC Championship Game? Ummmm, what? These matchups—two predictable heavyweights adding another chapter to their recent playoff rivalry on one side, one mini-surprise and one out-of-nowhere team playing for the third time this season on the other—illustrate one aspect of what makes this sport so great. Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen preview Conference Championship Sunday on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Rundown
- NFC Championship Game preview
- The narrative aspects
- When the Commanders have the ball
- When the Eagles have the ball
- Supporting pieces to watch
- AFC Championship Game preview
- The narrative aspects
- When the Bills have the ball
- When the Chiefs have the ball
- Supporting pieces to watch
Host: Robert Mays
Co-Host: Derrik Klassen
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:36.1 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:38.3 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:39.2 | Championship Sunday is here, and me and Derek Classen broke down both of the big games that you guys are going to be getting this weekend. |
| 0:46.5 | Started with Washington and the Eagles. |
| 0:48.2 | Just chatted about Washington's very unlikely path to this moment. |
| 0:52.1 | What we've seen from the Eagles this season and just how a really |
| 0:55.2 | talented roster coming into the year is suddenly more talented than we ever could have predicted. |
| 1:00.6 | On the other side of things, this AFC game is as good as it gets. |
| 1:04.0 | Josh Allen going on the road, trying to slay the dragon at the end of the road, wondering |
| 1:08.6 | if this is the best chance for this Bill's team with a |
| 1:12.0 | Chief's team that feels very good, but it's not the juggernaut we've seen in years past, |
| 1:15.9 | with an NFC that feels a little bit watered down. |
| 1:18.7 | And we dove into what might happen on both sides of the ball in that game. |
| 1:21.8 | So let's get to all of that with Derek Klesson right now. |
| 1:30.2 | All right, Derek, leten right now. All right, Derek. |
| 1:31.1 | Let's dig into it. |
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