Week 11 recap: The Bills stake their claim to AFC supremacy, the Steelers take control of the AFC North, the Broncos make a statement, and more
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🗓️ 18 November 2024
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
The Bills-Chiefs rivalry delivered yet again, with the Bills handing the Chiefs their first loss of the season. The Ravens-Steelers rivalry delivered, too, and now the Steelers find themselves in command of the AFC North. Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen dig into those games, plus the Broncos statement win over the Falcons, the befuddling 49ers—as well as the broader picture of the NFC West—Anthony Richardson's triumphant return, and a whole lot more on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Rundown
- Bills make a statement with win over Chiefs
- Bengals and Chargers give us a great one on Sunday night
- Steelers defense...You Have My Attention!
- The Denver Broncos...You Have My Attention!
- WTF is this 49ers season?
- Settling for a 46-yard field goal, Matt Eberflus? WTF?!?
- Anthony Richardson's triumphant return
- Tua's making plays on the move
- The Jaguars scored first against the Lions...and then the Lions won 52-6
- Taysom Hill's monster day
- What Did We Learn Today?
Host: Robert Mays
Co-Host: Derrik Klassen
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show, brought to you by Thursday Night Football only on Prime Video. |
| 0:08.9 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:10.0 | Week 11 is in the books, and man, was it a good one? |
| 0:13.6 | I dug into all of this week's action with my buddy Derek Classen. |
| 0:17.4 | Chatted about a huge win for the Buffalo Bills, a statement win for the Buffalo Bills. |
| 0:22.3 | Chatted about the Steelers' defensive performance against a red-hot Ravens offense that really |
| 0:27.2 | struggled today. Talks about a great Sunday night game that really grabbed our attention. |
| 0:31.7 | Dug into what this Niners team has looked like and another disappointing day for them and |
| 0:36.0 | kind of asked what the hell is going on with this season in general. Talked about the end of that Bears game. Derek wanted to talk about it. Want to make that clear before we dig into it. This was one of his WTF moments. And then a few other things that really jumped out to us this week. Anthony Richardson, you know, another big day from the Lions and the rest of a great slate of week 11 action. |
| 0:54.8 | So let's get to it. |
| 1:02.0 | Well, Derek, I think you can make an argument that that was the best week of football that we have |
| 1:07.0 | gotten so far this season, despite everyone saying last week that the NFL was garbage and losing its fastball. But how are you feeling after a wonderful week 11 slate of games? |
| 1:16.7 | Fantastic. That felt like not only a great week of NFL football, but like a very heavy |
| 1:22.4 | week of NFL football, like just a lot of gravity to everything that happened today. It was |
| 1:26.3 | a really nice change of pace. Very consequential day. Yes. That's how I would describe it. We had some shifting around at the top of the AFC potentially. We had some shifting around at the top of the AFC North. We had an insane Sunday night football game, which we will get to a little bit later. You know, sometimes the Sunday night game, we're prepping for the show. |
| 1:45.3 | There's so many things we're trying to juggle. |
| 1:42.8 | It's like, I'll hit that later in the week. This one, I think, demands our attention in more than one way. And the rest of the show is a little bit lighter than normal. So we will be talking about that. But we're going to kick things off with the game of the day. we talk about consequential, the game of the day and the, |
| 1:45.5 | where the game of the week has we previewed it on our Friday show, |
| 2:00.9 | the Buffalo and the, one of the game of the week as we previewed it on our Friday show, the Buffalo Bills |
| 2:05.3 | hand the Kansas City Chiefs their first loss of the season, 30 to 21, |
| 2:10.3 | bills now a half game back in the lost column, one game back in the loss column, |
| 2:14.1 | two KC, giving themselves a potential shot at the one seed, now having a tiebreaker |
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