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This is the athletic football show's Kiefer and the Beats.

Welcome to the Athletic Football Show.

This is Zach Kiefer here to peel back the curtain just a little bit on week three in the NFL.

We had some history in Miami from the Dolphins. We had Taylor Swift make an appearance at Arrowhead.

Justin Fields and Zach Wilson continued to play some really bad football. The Packers stunned the Saints with 18 straight and the fourth.

The Cowboys are no longer undefeated.

They lost to an Arizona team that looks a lot better than a lot of us thought they would.

But we're going to start here with three games that didn't quite get as much attention.

First up are the Chargers, who survived a gutsy call, possibly even reckless, from Brandon Staley late and a four-point win over the Vikings.

I had a really frank and honest and nuanced conversation with our Chargers beatwriter Daniel Popper about the context behind the decision and the state of a team that, in his words, has to win this year.

From there, I'll check in with Zach Jackson in Cleveland,

where so far the Browns and not the Cowboys have the best defense in football.

It's about time we dug into this unit.

The numbers that Zach dug up about the Browns defense right now are utterly insane.

Jim Swartz, Miles Garrett, and that unit are just wrecking teams so far. And lastly,

I'll catch up with my former beat writer in Indy, James Boyd, who was on hand yesterday in the

rain in Baltimore for the Colts overtime upset of Lamar Jackson and the Ravens. This was a team,

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