Super Bowl LX Preview
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
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🗓️ 6 February 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
It all started back on September 4, 2025, with the Eagles squeaking out a 24-20 win over the Cowboys. It ends on Sunday, five months and 284 games later, when the Patriots and Seahawks meet in Super Bowl LX. What will it take for the Patriots to go from 4-13 a year ago to Super Bowl Champs? How do the Seahawks cap off their ascent to the top of the league witha Super Bowl title? Robert Mays, Derrik Klassen and Dave Helman break it all down on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Rundown (timestamps are approximate)
3:29 Broad overview of the matchup
8:00 The lasting influence of Super Bowl LX
13:15 When did we know the Patriots could get here?
15:47 When did we know the Seahawks could get here?
23:29 Patriots offense vs. Seahawks defense
41:36 Seahawks offense vs. Patriots defense
1:01:10 Picks
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Host: Robert Mays
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:05.5 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:06.8 | Not a whole lot of preamble needed here. |
| 0:09.5 | It's a Super Bowl preview. |
| 0:10.9 | Me, Derek, and Dave, hit Patriots, Seahawks from every angle that we could. |
| 0:15.0 | Started with some of the storylines associated with this game, how these teams got here, |
| 0:19.4 | when we knew they'd be capable of playing |
| 0:21.2 | in this sort of game, what this means for a Mike McDonald, a Sam Darnold, the Drake May. |
| 0:26.1 | And then just dug in to each side of the ball. |
| 0:28.9 | How the Patriots can find a path forward on offense against Seattle, where their explosives |
| 0:34.4 | might need to come from, what matchup advantages does Duingland have, even if it doesn't seem like there are a lot of them? And then on the |
| 0:40.7 | other side of the ball, when Seattle has the ball in this game, I think all of us agreed that was |
| 0:45.3 | the Patriots' best path here. Can they ugly this game up? Can they get a couple turnovers, |
| 0:50.2 | several negative plays? Can their defense, like it has all playoffs for New England, |
| 0:57.2 | carry them in what is the biggest moment of their season? |
| 1:00.6 | So really enjoyed this conversation with Derek and Dave. |
| 1:02.1 | Let's get to it right now. |
| 1:09.3 | Welcome back to the Athletic Football Show coming to you live from Radio Row in San Francisco. |
| 1:13.3 | Gentlemen, it's about that time. |
| 1:16.2 | We are at peak saturation right now. |
| 1:19.4 | So I think it's time to preview this game and get it underway. |
| 1:23.3 | What is the weirdest thing you saw today? |
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