Week 12 Recap: Cowboys stun Eagles, Rams crush Bucs, Chiefs get much-needed win, Ravens take over first in AFC North, and more
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🗓️ 24 November 2025
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Summary
We're through two-thirds of the NFL regular season. Thanksgiving Week is here. The beginning of the home stretch has arrived. And yet, do we even have a definitive Super Bowl favorite? Perhaps it's the Los Angeles Rams, who crushed the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Week 12. But this thing is wide open and that was on full display leading up to that SNF game. The Dallas Cowboys rallied from a 21-0 hold to beat the Philadelphia Eagles, 24-21. The Kansas City Chiefs came back from 20-9 to get a huge 23-20 win over the Indianapolis Colts. The Baltimore Ravens moved into first place in the AFC North...but they weren't terribly impressive in the process. Meanwhile, the Chicago Bears, Green Bay Packers and Detroit Lions all kept pace with one another in the NFC North, the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots took care of business, and the Jacksonville Jaguars won a silly one over the Arizona Cardinals. Robert Mays, Derrik Klassen and Dave Helman break it all down on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Rundown (timestamps are approximate)
4:00 Bucs-Rams
13:41 Colts-Chiefs
33:28 Eagles-Cowboys
49:00 Steelers-Bears
1:03:27 Ravens WTF
1:11:30 Jags-Cardinals WTF
1:21:54 Vikings WTF
1:28:10 Derrik/Gibbs Romantic
1:31:02 Robert Romantic...Game will humble you
1:34:00ish Dave Romantic...George Pickens
1:35:51 What did we learn today?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the athletic football show. I'm Robert Mays. Week 12 in the NFL was a doozy. We dug into all of it with me, Derek Classen, and Dave Hellman. Start things off with a Rams blowout win from Sunday night football. Talked about a couple of forms that grabbed our attention with the Chiefs staying in the AFC playoff race |
| 0:22.7 | and the Dallas Cowboys with a massive comeback win over the Eagles. |
| 0:27.9 | Also chatted a little bears who now sit at 8 and 3. |
| 0:30.9 | A couple WTF performances from the Ravens, even though they won. |
| 0:34.5 | Some strange decisions down the stretch in Jags Cardinals. |
| 0:38.7 | We, much to Derek's chagrin, talked about J.J. McCarthy because Dave wouldn't let us not do it. |
| 0:44.1 | And then we also hit some things that made us feel romantic about football in week 12. |
| 0:49.9 | So let's get to that conversation with me, Dave, and Derek right now. |
| 1:00.2 | Thank you. let's get to that conversation with me, Dave, and Derek right now. Gentlemen, that was one hell of a Sunday in the NFL. |
| 1:03.9 | I had a moment during the afternoon slate as it became clear that the Cowboys were at least |
| 1:09.6 | going to keep this thing close and perhaps |
| 1:11.2 | win it. And there was some weird shit happening in the Jags Cardinals game. And I just kind of had |
| 1:17.3 | a smile on my face like, tonight's going to be fun. We're going to have a lot of stuff to dig into |
| 1:21.9 | tonight. They're not all this good, but I very much enjoyed week 12 in the NFL calendar, David. |
| 1:28.2 | When the Sunday night game is that big of a stinker and you know that it's pretty much |
| 1:33.8 | over with within 10 minutes of the game starting and it was still that good of a day, |
| 1:40.2 | yeah. |
| 1:40.7 | And they haven't all been this great, right? |
| 1:43.0 | We had a three or four week stretch where it felt a little lackluster. But man, from beginning to end, this was phenomenal. And yeah, it kind of, it crescendoed there in the second half of the late window where the Cowboys were storming back and Jags cards was stupid as hell and just a very, very fun day. And like for me, other than like the games that we wanted to be good were like Colts, chiefs that ended up being pretty good. Eagles Cowboys ended up being really good. So the games we wanted to be good other than the Sunday Nighter were pretty good. But then a lot of the other games that weren't supposed to be good. You still had to keep an eye on like Patriots, Bengals was really close, Titan Seahawks stayed close. Giants Lions was almost a catastrophic loss for the Lions. Like it was even for the games that you thought maybe you could push to the side a little bit, we're still pretty entertaining. Yeah, absolutely. And we'll talk about the Sunday night game very briefly here. |
| 2:34.8 | Typically, the way we do this with the Sunday night games is if the Sunday night game is one of |
| 2:38.4 | our games of the week in the preview show, we're going to plan on hitting it in the recap show. |
| 2:42.9 | I don't think we have to spend a ton of time on this one. The Rams continue to look like the best team in |
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