Week 14 Preview — Bills-Jets showdown, Tua and Herbert on Sunday night, top-heavy NFC, and more
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🗓️ 8 December 2022
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
We are comfortably into the middle of December, which means we are staring down the stretch run of the NFL regular season. Robert Mays and Nate Tice are here to preview Week 14 on this episode of The Athletic Football Show. The guys dig into the matchup between the Bills and Jets, the divergent paths traveled by the Dolphins and Chargers this season, the NFC's dearth of contenders beyond the very top of the conference, and more.
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2:51 Lions-Vikings
10:16 The top-heavy NFC
15:01 Bills offense vs. Jets defense
36:46 Do the Browns have a secret sauce for the Bengals?
51:01 The divergent paths of the Dolphins and Chargers
69:24 Expectations for the Brock Purdy 49ers
77:20 Tyler Huntley holding the fort in Baltimore
79:46 Desmond Ridder's time in Atlanta
85:03 Win Robert's fourth screen
88:16 Week 14 picks
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| 0:00.0 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:15.4 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:17.7 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:18.4 | Joining me today. |
| 0:19.3 | It's my good friend Nate Tyson. |
| 0:20.4 | How you doing, buddy? Doing very well. I have the cleanest office I'm Robert Mays. Joining me today. It's my good friend Nate Tyson. How you doing, |
| 0:20.9 | buddy? Doing very well. I have the cleanest office I've ever been in. Oh my God, that makes one of us. I'm glad no one else can see the floor in here. Oh, oh my God. You should see the paperwork I have in my feet. It's like three different parts of my life. A pile of paperwork. It's not just like, oh, this is just taxes or this is just this, like bills or anything. |
| 0:19.5 | It's like, no, it's just, it life, a pile of paperwork. It's not just like, oh, this is just taxes or this is just this, like bills or anything. |
| 0:39.8 | It's like, no, it's just, it's a smattering of everything. It's a smattering of stress that I have. But other than that, I was laughing. Casey refused to come. She refuses to come in here. Oh, this is my layer. It's like a thing in our relationship. if Gacy just refuses to come into this really much. |
| 0:35.2 | I respect it. |
| 0:36.1 | I called it the dungeon, |
| 0:37.5 | I called mine the dungeon, |
| 0:39.2 | but it's upstairs, |
| 0:40.3 | so it's more like the lair. Like this is just my little, you know, the little castle where the experiments happen, like the little spire over in our house right now. But yeah, it's going well. Other than that, going great. I'm glad I got to talk about my stress at my feet that I got going on right now. A lot of fun stuff to dig into today. We got the take bowl this |
| 1:15.5 | week, Justin Herbert and Tua going out of it, which we will, we'll wade into slowly when we get there |
| 1:22.0 | later in the show, but we will talk about it. We can talk about Bengals Browns. It feels like the |
| 1:27.0 | Browns kind of have the Bengals number. Wanted to explore whether that's actually true and why it might be. We talk about Brock Purdy and the 49ers. What that outlook looks like, backup quarterback in for the Ravens. We have some Falcons quarterback news, even though they're not playing this week, but we do want to talk about it. Yeah, we do. |
| 1:45.0 | Before we get to any of that, I want to talk about what might be the weirdest game of the week. |
| 1:50.9 | And that is the Lions and the Vikings. |
| 1:53.8 | A familiar matchup, divisional game, get it twice a year. |
| 1:57.3 | So obviously not weird in that respect. |
| 1:59.9 | But it is a historic game for this specific reason. |
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