NFC Wild Card Round Preview
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🗓️ 10 January 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Our Wild Card Weekend preview is so jam-packed, we had to separate it into two episodes. Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen dig into the three NFC games on this episode of The Athletic Football Show. Packers-Eagles? Get ready for plenty of run game on both sides. Commanders-Buccaneers? That's the two most unexpectedly fun offenses in the league. Vikings-Rams? Kevin O'Connell and Sean McVay matching wits for the second time this season. It's going to be a helluva weekend on the NFC side of the bracket. Robert and Derrik dive deep and get you ready for Wild Card Weekend on this episode of TAFS.
Rundown
- Packers-Eagles preview
- Commanders-Buccaneers preview
- Vikings-Rams preview
Host: Robert Mays
Co-Host: Derrik Klassen
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:38.3 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:39.2 | The playoffs are here. |
| 0:40.9 | If you guys have not listened to the AFC preview, the AFC Wildcar preview that we've already done, that is already available in your feeds. |
| 0:48.6 | This is the NFC version of that show. |
| 0:51.5 | Me and Derek Classen dove deep on all three NFC matchups. I mean, three |
| 0:55.8 | really good games. All of these lines are pretty |
| 0:58.0 | small. I think pretty much anybody can |
| 0:59.9 | win all of these games. We dug into |
| 1:01.8 | what we're looking for on both sides of the ball, |
| 1:04.0 | in Eagles, Packers, Washington Bucks, |
| 1:06.5 | and Vikings, Rams. |
| 1:08.5 | Just a ton of stuff to look forward |
| 1:10.0 | to. Let's get to that with Derek Klesson right now. |
| 1:18.0 | All right, Derek. |
| 1:19.1 | Let's get to the NFC wild card slate, a slate that I think we're all pretty excited about. |
| 1:25.2 | When we were laying out the games and our potential matchups that we could be looking forward to this weekend, I think the're all pretty excited about. When we were laying out the games and our potential |
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