The strongest analytic and schematic trends of 2025, with Sam Schwartzstein
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
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🗓️ 18 December 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Every NFL season brings us some sort of advance in analytics and schematics, and spending some time every December looking back at this season's developments is one of our favorite things to do before we turn the page to the playoffs. Sam Schwartzstein, Amazon Prime's analytics expert, joins Robert Mays on this episode of The Athletic Football Show to dive deep on this season's analytic and schematic trends, and preview the monster Week 16 TNF game between the Rams and Seahawks.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. I'm Robert Mays. Really good one on tap for you guys today. |
| 0:08.4 | Our old buddy Sam Schwartzstein from Prime Vision, their analytics expert, is here to just talk about the year in like analytic and schematic trends, essentially. |
| 0:18.6 | Sam does a phenomenal job prepping for these games. We actually got |
| 0:22.4 | into a little bit of his process and how he preps for some of these games, but they've done |
| 0:26.4 | 15. This is going to be the 16th Prime Vision game that they've done this year. And so I just wanted to |
| 0:30.9 | kind of mine him for what he has learned going through those 16 games. And so we dug into some of the large-scale |
| 0:38.3 | schematic trends in the NFL this season, some of the large-scale analytics trends in the |
| 0:42.0 | NFL this season, before talking about some of the work specifically, like pocket health |
| 0:46.9 | that they are doing on those Prime Vision broadcast this year. And then we finish things off |
| 0:51.7 | with a quick preview of the best Thursday night football game of the year |
| 0:55.4 | and a reprise of maybe the best football game of the year with the Rams and the Seahawks. |
| 1:00.0 | So really enjoyed this conversation with Sam. |
| 1:02.9 | Thank you guys will as well. |
| 1:04.0 | Let's get to it right now. |
| 1:10.4 | Joining us now, it is one of our favorite friends of the show. |
| 1:13.7 | The analytics expert for Thursday Night Football on Prime Video, our old buddy Sam |
| 1:18.3 | Schwartzstein. Sam, how you doing, man? |
| 1:20.0 | What's up, Rob? We're going to be back. |
| 1:21.7 | Excited to have you here. |
| 1:23.4 | What we're doing today, I wanted to just kind of mind you for information, if that's okay with you. |
| 1:28.4 | That's what we're going to do today. |
| 1:29.7 | Always is. |
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