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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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 Subscribe to The Athletic Football Show... Apple Spotify YouTube Follow Robert on Bluesky: @robertmays.bsky.social Follow Derrik on Bluesky: @qbklass.bsky.social Follow Robert on X: @robertmays Follow Derrik on X: @QBKlass Theme song: Haunted Written by Dylan Slocum, Trevor Dietrich, Ruben Duarte, Kyle McAulay, and Meredith VanWoert / Performed by Spanish Love Songs Courtesy of Pure Noise / By arrangement with Bank Robber Music, LLC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:03.5	Welcome to the Athletic Football Show.
1:05.6	I'm Robert Mays.
1:06.5	Championship Sunday is here, and me and Derek Klasson broke down both of the big games that you guys are going to be getting this weekend.
1:13.9	Started with Washington and the Eagles.
1:15.5	Just chatted about Washington's very unlikely path to this moment, what we've seen from the Eagles this season,
1:21.2	and just how a really talented roster coming into the year is suddenly more talented than we ever could have predicted.
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