Week 14 preview: Symmetry returns to the standings as playoff races take shape
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🗓️ 6 December 2024
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Summary
You know what the best part of Week 14 is? No, not learning if the Chiefs can keep getting away with this in their showdown with the Chargers. No, not the huge NFC West matchup between the Seahawks and Cardinals. It's not even that awesome Lions-Packers game we all watched on Thursday. Week 14 is the final week with byes. After Week 14, every team will have played 13 games, and we'll finally be back to standings equilibrium. Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen preview the week ahead, and recap the Lions' thrilling Thursday night win over the Packers, on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Rundown
- Lions win thriller over Packers
- Game of the Week: Chargers at Chiefs
- Game of the Week: Seahawks at Cardinals
- Rams run game vs. Bills defense
- Bryce Young vs. Eagles defense
- Is Falcons-Vikings a revenge game for Kirk Cousins?
- Who's better positioned for the next three seasons...Bengals or Cowboys?
- What Do You Wanna Know from Week 14?
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. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:10.3 | Great show for you guys today. |
| 0:11.9 | Our week 14 preview, a couple games of the week. |
| 0:15.1 | Chatted about a rematch between the Seahawks and the Cardinals that we saw a couple |
| 0:18.0 | weeks ago. |
| 0:18.5 | That is a massive game in the NFC West. Discussed the Chiefs and the Cardinals that we saw a couple weeks ago that is a massive game in the NFC West, discussed the Chiefs and the Chargers, really dug into how we're feeling about the Chiefs these days. We really haven't talked about them since that Black Friday escape, that Houdini act they pulled against the Raiders about a week ago. So kind of did some level setting on what we think about this Chiefs team and what they could look like moving forward. Dug into a couple of the other games on this slate, |
| 0:40.9 | but because there's not a lot of great ones, we took these conversations a little bit wider, |
| 0:44.6 | talked about the dynamics with Kirk Cousins playing against the Vikings, discussed the |
| 0:48.5 | futures of the two teams playing in the Bengals, Cowboys, Monday night game. Before we did any of that, |
| 0:54.1 | though, a phenomenal Thursday night football game between the Packers and the Bengals Cowboys Monday night game. Before we did any of that, though, a phenomenal Thursday night football game |
| 0:57.4 | between the Packers and the Lions, and we're going to dig into that with Derek |
| 1:00.2 | Klasson right now. |
| 1:07.6 | Well, Derek, game of the year? |
| 1:10.7 | I don't, I, there's probably worse some other good candidates that I'm forgetting off the top of my head, but we really wanted this game to be good. |
| 1:18.6 | This game was like really going to determine who could come out of this division. |
| 1:21.9 | And I think it absolutely lived up to everything we could have thought about this game, especially because the last, you know, bout between these two, kind of just okay, kind of whatever, this one was the heavyweight fight that we wanted. Obviously, you're working up to a Packers Lions Thursday night game with both teams near the top of the division, near the top of the NFC, two of the best teams in the NFL. You're hoping for a good one, and this was about everything you could have hoped for. |
| 1:45.3 | What stood out to me early in the game, and a lot of people were talking about this, but it was |
| 1:49.2 | apparent from the first couple drives, the collisions in this game. The sheer physicality and |
| 1:56.5 | guys flying around on both sides of the ball, you could feel how important this game was to both |
| 2:02.9 | sides. And the fact that the level of play on both sides also matched that mindset and that |
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