Week 12 recap: Everything gets real at Thanksgiving
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🗓️ 25 November 2024
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
On the 49ers-Packers broadcast in Week 12, Tom Brady said that teams aren't who they really are until Thanksgiving. We might not be at Turkey Day quite yet, but it's a late Thanksgiving this year, so we can make an exception. We saw a whole lot of true colors on the field in Week 12. Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen are here to break it all down on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Rundown
- Eagles dominate Rams
- Packers run game...You Have My Attention!
- Seahawks defense...You Have My Attention!
- Titans-Texans...WTF?!?
- Do the Texans have a Wild Card Round ceiling?
- Washington Commanders...WTF?!?
- Bryce Young nearly one-upped the Chiefs
- Jonnu Smith is the Dolphins' top pass-catcher now?
- Baker Mayfield has found his place...and we're all better off for it
- Anthony Richardson has three types of games
- Caleb Williams' best performance of the season
- 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. |
| 0:05.7 | Brought to you by Thursday Night Football only on Prime Video. |
| 0:08.9 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:09.8 | Week 12 is in the books. |
| 0:12.0 | One hell of a week in the NFL. |
| 0:14.6 | Had some wonderful moments during the witching hour earlier today. |
| 0:17.7 | Had a ridiculous Saquan Barkley performance on Sunday Night Football. |
| 0:21.9 | Wire to wire, this was a good one. |
| 0:23.8 | We got into all of that with me and Derek Classen. |
| 0:26.9 | Chatted about a great performance from the Packers, essentially putting the Niners season |
| 0:30.4 | away, the Seahawks defense, really coming into form against an Arizona team that had |
| 0:35.8 | been rolling offensively. |
| 0:37.7 | Chat a little bit about Washington's slide, what this all means, whether or not it is an |
| 0:42.5 | indicator of what is to come for this team. |
| 0:44.7 | Chat about the Texans Titans game, which is the reason we created the WTF segment |
| 0:49.2 | could not be more fitting for what that game felt like throughout. |
| 0:52.9 | And then chat about just some other moments that stuck out to us in week 12. |
| 0:56.4 | So let's get to all of that with Derek. |
| 1:05.0 | Derek, week 12 in the books here. |
| 1:07.1 | How are you feeling? |
| 1:09.1 | Rejuvenated. |
| 1:09.6 | I feel like, you know, you kind of need one of these |
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