Keefer and the Beats: Big picture in Tennessee, drama in Chicago, and a complete team in San Francisco
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🗓️ 3 October 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Is this the last dance for Ryan Tannehill and Derrick Henry? It has been a month for the Bears. And the 49ers seem to have a complete team in all three phases of the game. Zak Keefer is joined by beat writers, Kevin Fishbain (Bears), Joe Rexrode (Titans) and Matt Barrows (49ers) to break down and discuss this all.
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| 0:32.4 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:47.7 | Welcome back to the athletic football show. |
| 0:50.2 | This is Zach Kiefer coming to you from Buffalo, New York, |
| 0:52.8 | where yesterday I watched The Bills and Josh Allen lay the hammer on a red hot dolphins team. I thought it was a very loud and clear statement from Buffalo. The Bills essentially saying, you want to win the AFC East? You got to come through us. And that ain't happening anytime soon. I know Robert and Nate dug into the Bills last night on their show, but there's a lot |
| 1:11.3 | to catch up on around the rest of the league. In New York last night, Zach Wilson played really well, |
| 1:16.5 | well enough to keep the job. We'll see. In Houston, there's no questions about who the guy is. |
| 1:22.1 | C.J. Stroud is becoming a star, and the Texans ripped the struggling Steelers 30 to 6. |
| 1:29.0 | Mike Tomlin was furious afterward vowing that changes are going to come. What those changes look like, we're going to |
| 1:33.6 | have to find out. Another AFC North contender, or at least supposed contender, the Bengals, |
| 1:40.1 | one and three. The quarterback's not right, and we're only a month in, but it's hard to see this flipping any time soon, |
| 1:47.5 | especially with that lingering calf injury to Joe Burrow. |
| 1:51.0 | He just doesn't look the same. |
| 1:52.8 | The Ravens right now are three and one atop that division after whipping the Browns, who were without Deshawn Watson. |
| 1:58.3 | The bucks are three and one after beating the Saints, 26 to 9. The Eaglesucks are 3-1 after beating the Saints 26 to 9. |
| 2:01.9 | The Eagles, 4-0, after a thrilling overtime win over the commanders, I don't think the Eagles |
| 2:06.9 | are playing their best football right now, and the fact that their 4-0 might be a good thing, |
| 2:10.3 | because we've got a long way to go. But let's drill down on three games and three teams a month |
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