The AFC playoff picture takes shape, Jalen Hurts ignites the Eagles, Washington’s defense dominates, Colts, Saints, Vikings & more in our week 14 reaction
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
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🗓️ 14 December 2020
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
After a crazy week 14 in the NFL, we now have a clearer picture of which teams have a chance to make a postseason run. Could the Bills give the Chiefs a run for their money? Join The Athletic's Robert Mays and Nate Tice as they cover all the biggest headlines of the weekend, including the Colts win over the Raiders, Jalen Hurts providing the Eagles with a spark, Chase Young and the Washington defense dominating, losing faith in the Vikings, Saints talk, analyzing Aaron Rodgers and more.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:15.8 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:18.5 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:19.7 | Joining me tonight. |
| 0:20.6 | It's my buddy Nate Tyson. |
| 0:21.6 | How you doing? |
| 0:22.7 | Good. |
| 0:23.4 | Playoffs are bearing down. |
| 0:25.2 | It kind of looks like it took a little bit of shape today. |
| 0:28.2 | Whether it kind of was pretty or not, |
| 0:29.9 | it formed some form of shape that, like, |
| 0:32.0 | the playoffs are coming and what we're going to see as it takes form. |
| 0:37.1 | I felt the need to pay attention to Kornacki today during the pregame show. |
| 0:41.7 | I felt he was telling me things this week that I needed to know compared to last week when it didn't seem like. |
| 0:47.9 | Oh, man, it dropped 17%. |
| 0:49.5 | Yeah, it dropped 17%. |
| 0:49.7 | Wow. |
| 0:50.2 | Because there wasn't as much chalk and there were some things that really determined the playoff. Last week it just felt like he was pointing to numbers and he was like, this team has a 95% chance. Like, yeah, I know, Steve, I'm looking at the same screen. You're pointing at. But the changes this week I thought were really interesting. So we're going to get into some of those. Talk about a telling game and a big game for Jalen Hertz and the Eagles against the Saints. |
| 1:12.8 | I'll chat about the Washington defense playing really well, big win for the Colts, |
| 1:17.0 | all the other playoff implication type stuff that happened today. |
| 1:20.4 | For what were you any of that, though? |
| 1:21.5 | I want to start the show by talking about the AFC playoff picture and especially the top of the AFC |
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