Divisional Round Saturday Preview: Texans-Chiefs and Commanders-Lions
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🗓️ 17 January 2025
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Summary
The Divisional Round is the football junkie's round of the playoffs. It's the last week of the season with games on multiple days. Gone is the riff-raff that couldn't get past the Wild Card Round. Back are the 1-seeds, fresh off their well-earned bye. And those 1-seeds are both in action on Saturday, with the Chiefs hosting the Texans in a rematch of a game we just saw a month ago, and the Lions welcoming the surprising Commanders to Detroit. Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen dive deep into those two games on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Host: Robert Mays
Co-Host: Derrik Klassen
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:05.7 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:06.8 | Part one of our divisional round preview is here. |
| 0:10.1 | Me and Derek Classen broke down both of the Saturday games. |
| 0:13.5 | The Texans and their traditional Saturday afternoon slot heading to Kansas City to take on the Chiefs, Washington going to Detroit, and what I hope is a |
| 0:21.8 | high-scoring, entertaining affair. It is the best football weekend of the year, and to give it |
| 0:27.3 | all the space it deserves, we broke down this preview into two parts. Let's dig into the |
| 0:32.3 | Saturday games with Derek right now. |
| 0:39.9 | Oh, Derek, we made it. |
| 0:40.9 | We made it to the best football weekend of the year. |
| 0:44.8 | I think pretty unequivocally. |
| 0:46.9 | Wildcard weekend is fun. |
| 0:48.2 | There are more games. |
| 0:49.3 | We obviously get the Monday game. |
| 0:50.5 | It takes up a larger portion of your weekend. |
| 0:53.6 | And that's great. Like a full weekend |
| 0:55.1 | a playoff football is excellent. But when we get to the final eight teams on divisional |
| 0:59.5 | round weekend, that that's really when things start to come together. I always look forward to |
| 1:04.0 | this weekend in a way I look forward to pretty much no other football weekend of the year. |
| 1:08.4 | This is when you can start to feel like, all right, almost all of these teams, you can see the path to them making it to the end, whereas wild card weekend, you're really having to squint at a lot of these guys. And I think this weekend is fun, too, because we've got some matchups that I think coming into the year, we probably could have predicted, like Ravensbills, totally make sense. but then you've got some other weird ones like Washington ending up where we are so I think it's like a really good mix |
| 1:31.1 | of stuff that we could not have seen before this season and also matchups that I think we were all |
| 1:35.6 | praying for as soon as we saw the schedule so just so you guys know this is going to be the Saturday |
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