Conference Championship Sunday Recap: It's the Chiefs and Eagles for the Super Bowl...again
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🗓️ 27 January 2025
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A season that presented us with so many possible new Super Bowl teams—the Lions! the Bills! the Ravens! the 14-win Vikings!—ended in an awfully familiar place. How did the Chiefs and Eagles win their respective conferences to advance to Super Bowl LIX? Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen recap Championship Sunday on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Host: Robert Mays
Co-Host: Derrik Klassen
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. I'm Robert Mays, a championship Sunday for the books. |
| 0:10.5 | Bill's Chiefs, everything we could want it to be. We talked about it at the top of the show with me and Derek |
| 0:14.9 | classum, but you got Josh and Allen with three minutes left, down by a field goal, trying to |
| 0:20.1 | overcome the playoff demons against |
| 0:22.5 | Patrick Mahomes on the road. That's the sort of moment you live for if you love this sport. |
| 0:26.6 | And the fact that we got that and we got a version of the AFC championship game that |
| 0:29.8 | lived up to the billing, a lot of games in the AFC playoffs that lived up to the billing. |
| 0:34.4 | There were everything we could want. It was a fantastic moment. |
| 0:38.7 | We dug into all of that. |
| 0:44.0 | Steve Spagnolo game, you know, just to tack on to his playoff legacy, what we got from Patrick Mahomes again, and the fact that the chiefs are just unkillable at this point. |
| 0:48.9 | Speaking of unkillable, the Philadelphia Eagles are an absolute wagon when they are playing the way that they play today. |
| 0:56.0 | They destroy the Washington football team in the NFC championship game. |
| 1:00.0 | Monster Day from Saquan Barkley, arguably the best game that Jalen Hertz has played all season, |
| 1:04.8 | and that defense brings it in a way that we have come to expect. |
| 1:08.1 | So we broke down both the AFC and the NFC championship game |
| 1:11.5 | from every single angle. Let's get to that conversation with Derek Klesson right now. |
| 1:23.4 | Derek, first championship Sunday on the athletic football show. |
| 1:28.3 | How are you feeling over there? |
| 1:30.5 | I feel fantastic. |
| 1:38.2 | I mean, everything we build the AFC race between Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen, and Patrick Mahomes up to be, I think it delivered over the past two weeks. |
| 1:39.4 | So I am through the roof. |
| 1:45.5 | I'm sitting there when they're down three, the bills's getting the ball back with three-ish minutes left. |
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