Week 13 Recap: Division races heat up as the season heads into December
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🗓️ 1 December 2025
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Summary
December has arrived, and there isn't much more separation among teams at the top of their divisions as there was back when everyone was 0-0. Three divisions—the NFC West, AFC South and AFC North—are tied. Two more—the NFC North and NFC South—have a half-game separating the top-two teams. The Cowboys now trail the Eagles by just 1.5 games in the NFC East. We're going to enjoy one helluva run to the playoffs over the next month. Robert Mays, Derrik Klassen and Dave Helman recap all the games that contributed to those tight standings, and a whole lot more, on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. I'm Robert Mays. The week 13 recap is here. A pretty eventful |
| 0:10.8 | week 13 in the NFL and a pretty impactful week 13 in the NFL. We've got a lot of changing |
| 0:16.9 | standings, got things shifting around. We started today's show talking about the AFC South, the Texans big win over the |
| 0:24.1 | Colts and what that means for that division. |
| 0:26.7 | Also talked a little bit about Pittsburgh and the Bills and another big game from the |
| 0:31.8 | Bills running game and a Steelers team that is trending in the wrong direction. |
| 0:35.4 | Wanted to start things talking about Sunday, but then we talked about a lot of the games |
| 0:38.7 | that happened on Thanksgiving and on Black Friday just because they were massive games. |
| 0:43.2 | Started with the Packers win over the Lions, chatted about the massive Bears win over the |
| 0:48.8 | Eagles, the Cowboys win over the Kansas City Chiefs, what it means for both of those teams, before |
| 0:54.9 | getting into a couple WTF moments from week 13, including the Ravens loss to the Bengals, |
| 1:00.7 | the Rams loss to the Panthers, which kind of created a double WTF that you guys will |
| 1:07.2 | hear about a little bit later. |
| 1:08.5 | But a lot of stuff to dig into today with me, Dave Hellman, and Derek Klesson. |
| 1:13.6 | Let's get to it right now. |
| 1:20.7 | We are back with the week 13 recap. |
| 1:24.9 | We're going to do this a little bit differently than we typically would on a Thanksgiving |
| 1:28.6 | weekend, just because the Thursday and Friday games were so important. Not only were they between |
| 1:33.9 | really good teams, but I think that some of the shifting dynamics around the league because |
| 1:38.1 | of those games, we're going to dig into a lot of that over the course of today. But we are going |
| 1:42.9 | to start, David, with what happened on |
| 1:45.9 | Sunday night game. Me and Derek are going to dig into that on the hangover tomorrow. So if you're |
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