Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. I'm Robert Mays. Night one of the divisional round is in

the books, a thrilling game between the Bills and the Broncos. Devastating news for Broncos fans

losing Bonix after this one. He had a really nice day, give you everything you could want.

Made plays with his legs, three or four throws down the field. I thought for a good chunk of this game, Sean Payton and just the structure of the Broncos' offense looked really good. This to me, in a lot of ways, was the example of why the Broncos can win the Super Bowl with them pulling the right strings on offense and the quarterback playing this way. And so for him to go down and now you're dealing with potentially a backup quarterback in the

AFC championship game, just a brutal, brutal gut punch for Broncos fans.

Speaking of gut punches, the Niners just get absolutely destroyed by the Seahawks.

The Seahawks have felt like the best team in the league here for a little while,

top to bottom. When you look at offense, defense, special teams, they have a chance in any given

week of just being an absolute buzzsaw. And to watch them do that in a playoff game against the

Niners, even a banged up Niners team, unbelievably impressive. We started with that one before digging in to Bill's Broncos.

Let's get to it with me, Derek Klasson, and Dave Hellman right now.

We'd gotten an incredible set of playoff games up to this point, including the first game of

today, another one that goes down to the last play of the game. We were due for one that was a little

one-sided, and my God, was that an ass kicking? I don't want to be a prisoner of the moment, but

that felt rare, even by beat down standards i mean really from the very first moment obviously

rashid sheid takes that kick and i think we could have called it right there honestly i said it

i said it i'm not joke sort of joking after they were turned the kickoff for the touchdown i

said that might be enough yes because like by the spread, which I know like that's before they play the game, they're already given up seven. And then you immediately give up seven on the opening kickoff. And it's like, buddy, this game feels over. And honestly, because of how bad of an ass beating it was and how insanely well the Seahawks defense played, I mean, not allowing a touchdown to a Kyle Shanahan team twice in a row is insane.

That does actually put this game up there with me with some of the good quality games we get.

Because like you said, Dave, this is rare.

You don't see a game like this very often.

I'm glad you said that right there, Derek, because I looked it up.

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