NFL Week 5 preview — Bengals-Ravens, Rams O vs. Cowboys D, curious offenses, picks, and more

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🗓️ 7 October 2022

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Week 5 of the NFL season has arrived, and with it comes a whole new slate of questions. Who will take the early lead in the AFC North when the Bengals and Ravens get together? What will the sputtering Rams offense do with a tough test against the top-flight Cowboys defense? How are the Giants and Seahawks doing what they're doing on offense? Robert Mays, Nate Tice and Diante Lee are here to provide answers to those questions on this episode of The Athletic Football Show. Follow Robert on Twitter: @robertmays Follow Nate on Twitter: @Nate_Tice Follow Diante on Twitter: @DianteLeeFB Subscribe to The Athletic Football Show... Apple Spotify YouTube 1:15 Game of the Week: Bengals-Ravens 17:35 Gameplan of the Week: Rams offense vs. Cowboys defense 41:16 The oddities of the Giants offense 50:30 Is the Seahawks offense...good? 59:40 Chargers-Browns 70:20 Under the Hood: The Falcons offense 81:10 Win my Fourth Screen 85:40 Week 5 picks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode of the Athletic Football Show is brought to you by Kentucky Fried Chicken.
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0:23.6	This is the Athletic Football Show.
0:39.6	Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. I'm Robert Mayes joining me today.
0:43.7	It's my good friend Nate Heist. How you doing buddy? Doing well? Week 5? We're rolling.
0:48.9	It's one of those things when we get to 18 weeks now. It's week 6, it's like the third.
0:54.9	I've actually been really like, I don't like the uneven numbers that we play.
0:59.2	That's really been bugging me actually more than jersey number changes. Because week four should be the quarter
1:03.5	mark. Week four should be a quarter of the way through the season. Now it's not anymore and I don't
1:07.7	know what to do with myself. I know halfway through week five I guess is now the quarter's mark.
1:12.3	So that's how we have to look at it now. So this show is the quarter mark. That's where we're at.
1:18.0	We're for the season. There we go. We're at four and a half weeks.
1:21.0	Tianta is going to be joining us a little bit later. We're going to talk about the Cowboys
1:24.4	Defense Against the Rams offense for our game plan of the week. If that is an indication and I
1:28.8	think it is of the slate that we have this week, not a ton of marquee games. I mean, not a ton.
1:35.6	Not a lot of games you're like, oh man, I have that circled this week. And that's okay.
1:39.7	That happens every once in a while. But week five does not have the sort of sex appeal that some
1:45.0	of the other weeks we're going to have over the course of the season might. And that is why we're
1:48.4	going to start with one game of the week this week. It is Bengals at Ravens in prime time.
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