Week 1 preview + Ravens-Chiefs recap
The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL
The Athletic
4.6 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2024
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
We did it. We made it. The 2024 NFL regular season is here. In fact, one game is already in the books. We kick off this episode of The Athletic Football Show with a recap of the Chiefs' thrilling 27-20 win over the Ravens, featuring Robert Mays, Derrik Klassen and Mike Sando. Then, Robert and Derrik preview the rest of the games by highlighting five things they're excited about watching in Week 1, including Packers-Eagles, Lions-Rams, the potentially resurgent Cardinals and Jets, and Caleb Williams' NFL debut (approximate start time of 25 minutes).
Rundown
- Chiefs-Ravens recap
- Packers-Eagles will be fun
- Cardinals upset potential over Bills
- We finally get to see the Aaron Rodgers Jets
- Good test for the Jaguars
- C.J. Stroud vs. Anthony Richardson
- Joe Alt gets Maxx Crosby in his first real NFL game
- Rams-Lions redux
- Baptism by fire for the Cowboys' new offensive line
- Caleb Williams' NFL debut
- There are a lot of young quarterbacks in the league!
Host: Robert Mays
Co-Host: Derrik Klassen
With: Mike Sando
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:06.1 | Brought to you by Thursday Night Football only on Prime Video. |
| 0:09.3 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:10.6 | Fantastic show for you guys today. |
| 0:12.3 | We're here. |
| 0:12.8 | We made it. |
| 0:13.5 | It's week one. |
| 0:14.7 | Kickoff game. |
| 0:15.8 | We celebrated it in a big way. |
| 0:17.7 | Live from Kansas City, me, Derek Klesson, Mike Sando. Did a little live event at no other |
| 0:23.4 | pub in KC last night. Great turnout. Was so glad to see everybody that made it that was in town |
| 0:28.8 | for the game or was that was local. Sincerely appreciate everybody who came by. That's how we're |
| 0:33.6 | starting the show today. Just the recap that we had after Chiefs Ravens, |
| 0:38.4 | great way to kick off the season. So that is the first thing that you guys will hear on today's show. |
| 0:43.2 | We followed that up with our version of the week one preview. As we get into the season, |
| 0:49.1 | it's going to be the same sort of preview shows that we've done in the past. It's a little bit more |
| 0:53.0 | in depth. We're going to dig on probably half a dozen or so games in a bunch of different ways but |
| 0:57.5 | because we haven't seen these teams we're going to do the same thing that we did last year for week |
| 1:03.1 | one and we're really just going to talk about 10 things that we are excited to see in week one of the |
| 1:08.2 | NFL season whether it's a matchup a player a unit just something we're looking forward to taking in week one of the NFL season, whether it's a matchup, a player, a unit, just something |
| 1:12.0 | we're looking forward to taking in this week. So keep that in mind as me and Derek dig in. |
| 1:17.6 | Let's do it. |
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