Week 14 Preview: Bears-Packers finally means something again
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🗓️ 5 December 2025
⏱️ 94 minutes
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It’s a ton of fun anytime you get a game with first place on the line this late in the season. This week, we have three such games. And one of them is Bears-Packers. So yeah, Week 14 just might be the best week of the season. Robert Mays, Dave Helman and Derrik Klassen preview everything we’ve got to come this week on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:05.1 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:06.0 | Week 14 is a good one, man. |
| 0:08.6 | Got a lot of fun stuff on tap. |
| 0:10.8 | We started this thing with a Bears Packers game of the week preview, |
| 0:14.5 | which I'm not sure we've ever had the Bears in that spot on this show. |
| 0:17.9 | And so a lot at stake, a lot on the line. |
| 0:20.6 | It's a fun one. We dug into that game |
| 0:22.3 | from every single angle. Talked about a monster game in the AFC South between the Jags and the |
| 0:27.1 | Colts. Those teams tied atop the division right now. Colts season kind of hanging in the balance in a way |
| 0:32.8 | that would have been impossible to imagine a month ago. Hit one thing from Bill's, Bengals, and Texans chiefs. |
| 0:39.0 | The chief's another team staring down their playoff lives this week. |
| 0:42.8 | Talked about the Eagles offense on a little under the hood and then a few more things |
| 0:47.3 | from a loaded week 14 slate with me, Derek Classen and Dave Hellman. |
| 0:51.5 | Let's get to it right now. |
| 0:57.1 | It's the week 14 preview here on the athletic football show. |
| 1:01.8 | We got a doozy on our hands on a bunch of different levels. |
| 1:05.6 | Several very important, very good games to dig into on this slate. |
| 1:11.2 | We've got games that typically would be Game of the Week treatment type of games |
| 1:15.0 | that aren't for one reason or another, but Chex's Chiefs coming a little bit later, |
| 1:18.3 | Bengals Bill's coming a little bit later in one thing. |
| 1:20.9 | We've got a massive game in the AFC South, but come on, we could only start this in one spot. |
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