NFC North Preview
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🗓️ 27 August 2024
⏱️ 112 minutes
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Summary
The Lions are inner-circle Super Bowl contenders. The Packers are potential Super Bowl contenders. The Bears have Caleb Williams and a ton of justified optimism. And there's plenty of intrigue for the Vikings, even with J.J. McCarthy out for the year. Is the NFC North the most exciting division in the league? It just might be. Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen break it down on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Rundown
- Detroit Lions preview
- Green Bay Packers preview
- Minnesota Vikings preview
- Chicago Bears preview
Host: Robert Mays
Co-Host: Derrik Klassen
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:06.1 | I'm Robert May. |
| 0:06.9 | It's great show for you guys today. |
| 0:08.0 | It's our NFC North preview. |
| 0:09.8 | A lot of fun stuff to dig into with this division, including on plenty of Caleb Williams |
| 0:13.7 | talk coming your guys as way, which I'm sure you'll be tired about by the time this season ends. |
| 0:18.0 | One bit of housekeeping before we dig into that show with Derek, though. |
| 0:21.6 | Next Thursday, live in Kansas City, we are coming to you with a live version of the athletic |
| 0:28.5 | football show before Chiefs Lions kicks off. |
| 0:32.0 | We're doing that at no other pub in the Power and Light District in KC, kicking off at about 5.30. This is a free event. |
| 0:41.7 | Me, Derek, Mike Sando, coming your guys' way. So if you were going to be in KC next week, |
| 0:48.2 | please come by. It's going to be like 5.30-ish before the game kicks off. So highly, |
| 0:52.8 | highly encourage you guys to come join us for that. |
| 0:55.4 | We are very excited to be on the ground in Kansas City as the season kicks off. |
| 0:59.2 | And let's kick off this show and our NFC North preview with Derek. |
| 1:18.0 | Digging into the NFC North today Derek which I think you can make an argument is one of the most intriguing divisions in the entire league. |
| 1:20.1 | You have two real contenders in the NFC. |
| 1:24.1 | You have the number one overall pick and a lot of excitement going on in Chicago. |
| 1:25.5 | And then I don't know. |
| 1:31.1 | I'm excited about watching the Sam Donald experience in Minnesota. I don know about everybody else but there's a lot to look forward to with these four teams I think it's probably one of the shows I'm |
| 1:35.2 | most excited to do I've been waiting for this one all all season man I mean as |
| 1:39.9 | as soon as we started realizing we were going to do division previews it was like this |
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