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The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL

Week 11 Hangover: The Bears move into first, the Steelers stay on top, and the Falcons lose another season

The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL

The Athletic

Sports, Football, Nfl Draft, Robert Mays, Nfl, Football,

4.63.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

The Bears and Steelers are in first place after Week 11? Sure, yup, just how we all drew it up back in August. Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen dig into the Bears' win over the Vikings and the Steelers' win over the Bengals on this episode of The Athletic Football Show. The guys also hit on the Texans, who won another game with Davis Mills at the helm, and take a couple of sad voicemails from fans of AFC West teams.


Rundown (timestamps are approximate)

3:20 Michael Penix likely out for season with knee injury

12:19 The Bears—yes, the Bears—move into first place after win over Vikings

38:59 The Steelers stay in first, and the Bengals are a total mess

54:41 Monday Mourning: Kansas City Chiefs are in uncharted waters

1:01:10 Monday Mourning: The Chargers and their desperate offensive line situation


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Host: Robert Mays

Co-Host: Derrik Klassen

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Athletic Football Show.

0:05.2

I'm Robert Mays.

0:06.4

Week 11 Hangover is here.

0:08.7

Me and Derek Classen broke down two games today that we did not hit on the week 11 recap,

0:14.1

dug into Bears of Vikings and just, you know, the performances from both of those young

0:19.2

quarterbacks and maybe some of the context that was hiding in the box score. It was a little bit surprising going back and rewatching that game. That's what I'll say. Also, chatted about the Steelers and the Bengals, just another really ugly performance from the Bengals defense on way too many different levels. The Steelers win that one going away. Talked a little bit about what this means for the Bengals moving forward, how that gets handled.

0:39.9

Also chatted about the Michael Pennix injury,

0:42.1

what that means for the Falcons now that he is out for the year

0:44.9

and then hit a couple of your voicemails

0:47.4

in another edition of Monday morning with the U.

0:50.6

So let's get to that conversation with me and Derek right now.

0:58.3

The Week 11 Hangover is here.

1:01.4

We're hitting two games today.

1:03.8

seemingly every week we're planning on to hit three,

1:05.7

and then there's some monumental news that we have to hit.

1:08.6

It's that part in the calendar.

1:09.9

Yeah, there's some stuff happening that is more important than us digging into Titans, Texans, unfortunately. Still going to talk about Bears Vikings. There's a lot to dig into in that game. It was surprising in a way I didn't necessarily expect going back and watching it. Considering both quarterbacks went 16 of 32, I expected to be more disappointed in the game overall than I was. So we'll talk about

1:28.4

that a little bit. Talk about Steelers, Bengals. Another just kind of heinous performance from

1:34.0

Cincinnati Bengals defense and then not much better from the offense in this game. Bengals fall

1:38.4

to three and seven. Their season is over and there's a lot to talk about there as well. But we're

1:43.5

going to start with the news of the day today.

1:46.3

Michael Pennix, likely to miss the rest of the season with a knee injury.

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