Welcome to the Athletic Football Show.

I'm Robert Mays.

Part two of our divisional round preview is here, breaking down the Sunday games.

Me and Derek Classen kick things off with Rams at Eagles, a rematch from a game we saw earlier this year where the Eagles ran away with it, but maybe the game might have been a little bit closer than we remember at first glance. So we talked about that rematch and some of the other

things to look for in this game between those two teams. We also broke down the game of the

year, the game of the last five years in the divisional round. The Baltimore Ravens going on

the road to play against Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills.

It does not get much better than that.

So me and Derek hit both of those games.

Let's chat with him right now.

All right, Derek, here we go.

Part two of our divisional round preview here on the athletic football show.

Let's dig right into it. The Rams at the Eagles, presented by BetMGM. The Eagles are six-point favorites in this game.

I want to pose a question to you that our producer Michael Bauer asked us when we were talking about these games.

He said, coming into the season, would we have been

surprised if either of these teams were in the NFC championship game? What is your response to that?

No, but I would have thought it would have been the Rams scoring 35 points every game and

Matthew Stafford still looking like one of the best quarterbacks in the league. I think what's funny, like more to that point is, so we've had the Eagles who were fighting for the one seed for a majority of the season. They've dominated a lot of these games. And the Rams are the ones that kind of took this winding road. They're stumbling into the playoffs. They barely get in at the last couple weeks of the season. Whereas if you told me at the beginning of the season, I would have thought, yeah, the Rams won like 12, 13 games. They had one of the best offenses in the league. The defense was good enough. And the Eagles were trying to figure stuff out for the majority of the season. You didn't know how good their defense was going to be. And now the fact that we're here and they basically flipped spots there is, it's funny that it's the same teams but completely

different circumstances i do think that you could make an argument the rams team we saw against

minnesota is the ideal version of what we thought this rams team could be they can sling it all over

the yard you know they still have when all their pieces are on the field their offense is very good

that young defense has a lot of

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