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The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL

NFL week 15 preview & picks

The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL

The Athletic

Sports, Football, Nfl Draft, Robert Mays, Nfl, Football,

4.63.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2021

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

What’s next for Trevor Lawrence and the Jaguars? Robert Mays and Nate Tice begin the episode by discussing what needs to happen in Jacksonville over the next few months. Then, they examine Aaron Rodgers and Matt LaFleur’s success this season, how the Rams have figured things out on offense and the 49ers’ adjustments on defense. Finally, Sheil Kapadia shares his Week 15 picks against the spread. 


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0:00.0

This is the Athletic Football Show.

0:15.5

The Athletic Football Show.

0:17.7

The Athletic Football Show is presented by State Farm.

0:17.9

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0:19.8

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0:21.3

Welcome. The Athletic Football Show. Today is Friday, State Farm. Because like a good neighbor, State Farm is there. Get a quote today. Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. Today's Friday, December 17th. I'm Robert Mays. Great show for you guys today. Shookapati is going to be joining us a little bit later to do our week 15 picks. I both can and can't believe it's already week 15. feels like the season's been 10 years long, but it also doesn't feel like we're getting close to the end.

0:22.5

So it just... can't believe it's already week 15. Feels like the season's been 10 years long, but it also doesn't feel like we're getting

0:39.6

close to the end.

0:40.7

So it's just a weird exercise in time.

0:43.9

Before we get to Shield, though, very excited to welcome my good friend.

0:47.6

Nate Tyson, how you doing, buddy?

0:49.4

Yeah, week 15 threw me off.

0:50.9

Like it, because I have Google Docs for each week.

0:53.8

I just keep one doc and I say like week 12

0:56.1

notes week 13 notes and I search week 14 like four times I'm like man I already have notes in here

1:02.0

and I'm like well I already have picks which what am I doing oh shoot okay and I'm sorry that's right it's

1:07.4

week 15 so I had to do that about three times this week going through but But yeah, home stretch, I guess. You know why it is? It's because week 15 is the start of the fantasy playoffs for most people. And it just feels like that. We're getting close to the end of the season. So that's why. Week 15 has always been that turn for me. So here we are. We're going to talk about four different things today. It's going to be a Friday four. We're going to talk about Aaron Rogers a little bit because we really haven't talked about the Packers offense and they're absolutely rolling right now. We're going to talk about whether the Rams have found themselves a little bit and gotten right on that side of the ball. We're talking about the Niners defense. Another unit that has been really good again this season. And we have barely talked about on the show. Before we do any of that,

1:48.7

though, I do want to talk about the Jacksonville Jaguars because even though we've done a lot of it today,

1:54.9

Lindsay and Sando talked about their Meyer firing on our first show today. Me and Shield did a separate

2:00.4

podcast that came out of the middle of today.

2:02.3

If you guys want to go check that out, that's really a deep dive on where the Jags go

2:06.4

and why they made this decision.

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