Keefer and the Beats: Peeling back the curtain in Week 3

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🗓️ 26 September 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Is this a must win year for the Chargers? Could the Browns defense be the best in football? With their best player on the sideline, the Colts are 2-1. Zak Keefer is joined by Chargers beat writer Daniel Popper, Browns beat writer Zac Jackson and Colts beat writer James Boyd to discuss this all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thursday night football is on and it's only on prime. This Thursday it's a
0:05.6	classic NFC showdown when the Chicago Bears head to the nation's capital to
0:10.5	take on the Washington commanders. Not a prime member sign up for a 30-day
0:14.7	free trial to stream the game. Coverage begins at 7 p.m. Eastern with T and
0:19.0	up tonight presented by Verizon. It's the Bears and the commanders on Thursday
0:23.3	night football and it's on prime. Restrictors apply C Amazon dot com slash
0:28.1	M's on prime for details.
0:34.1	This is the Athletic football shows Keifer and the Beats.
0:48.0	Welcome to the Athletic football show. This is Zach Keifer here to peel back the
0:51.6	curtain just a little bit on week three in the NFL. We had some history in Miami
0:56.3	from the dolphins. We had Taylor Swift making appearance at Arrowhead. Justin
1:00.6	Fields and Zach Wilson continued to play some really bad football. The
1:04.5	Packers stunned the Saints with 18 straight and the fourth. The Cowboys are
1:08.8	no longer undefeated. They lost to an Arizona team that looks a lot better than
1:13.2	a lot of us thought they would. But we're gonna start here with three games that
1:17.1	didn't quite get as much attention. First up are the chargers who survived a
1:22.1	gutsy call possibly even reckless from Brandon Staley late and a four point win
1:28.1	over the Vikings. I had a really frank and honest and nuanced conversation with
1:32.5	our chargers beat writer Daniel Popper about the context behind the decision and
1:36.9	the state of a team that in his words has to win this year. From there I'll
1:41.5	check in with Zach Jackson and Cleveland. We're so far the Browns and not the
1:45.8	Cowboys have the best defense and football. It's about time we dug into this
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