Week 14 Recap: Bears-Packers delivers, Jaguars and Steelers make big moves, and holy cow, Josh Allen
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🗓️ 8 December 2025
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Summary
If you caught the Week 14 preview episode of The Athletic Football Show, you know we were excited about this Sunday. Bears-Packers, Colts-Jaguars, Texans-Chiefs, Steelers-Ravens and Bengals-Bills. Welp, the day lived up to the expectations, and the some. Robert Mays, Dave Helman and Derrik Klassen dive deep into an awesome day of football—and consider its implications—on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Rundown (timestamps are approximate)
0:00 Welcome to the show
0:45 Texans-Chiefs
11:15 Andy Reid
20:30 Jags-Colts
20:45 Trevor Lawrence
27:00 Colts lose Daniel Jones
34:50 Packers-Bears
35:30 Caleb Williams & Bears offense
45:45 Jordan Love & Packers offense
52:30 Bills-Bengals
1:05:30 Steelers-Ravens
1:12:50 John Harbaugh’s future
1:17:00 Buccaneers-Saints
1:27:15 Romantic: Josh Allen
1:28:45 Romantic: Puka Nacua
1:30:00 Minnesota Vikings/JJ McCarthy
1:34:30 What did we learn today?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:04.9 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:06.0 | One hell of a week 14, boy. |
| 0:08.0 | We were excited about it coming in, and it did not disappoint. |
| 0:12.0 | Started things off to get into the Sunday night game and Kansas City Chiefs season that, |
| 0:16.3 | I don't know, guys, feels pretty over at this point. |
| 0:18.7 | Chiefs probably out of the playoffs. |
| 0:20.5 | The Texans are now looking |
| 0:21.7 | like a playoff team. A lot to chew on there. A fun group of games from you have my attention. |
| 0:27.9 | Maybe the best game of Trevor Lawrence's career in a game where the Colt season was potentially |
| 0:32.6 | put to bed. The Packers and Bears do not disappoint. Come up with a very entertaining, kind of stand-alone late afternoon slate game that was very enjoyable. |
| 0:43.8 | Josh Allen with a massive game against the Cincinnati Bengals and the snow. |
| 0:48.4 | And a couple of WTF moments from the Ravens and Bucks, and then a few fun things that made us feel romantic in week 14. |
| 0:57.0 | Let's get to that with me, Derek Klesson, and Dave Hellman right now. |
| 1:07.1 | When we did the week 14 preview on Friday, we really pumped this thing up. I think we really thought it was going to be a good week of football. We were excited about it. It was a slate with a lot of impactful games. I love one in NFL Sunday actually delivers. Derek was saying that when he was watching games, he was like pacing today. Like that's how much he was enjoying this thing. |
| 1:28.5 | I was standing up like at my, so my home setup is I've got my couple of monitors here. |
| 1:33.2 | I throw on my laptop with like red zone and all that. |
| 1:35.3 | And I was like standing in front of my desk in a way that I never do on a Sunday at home. |
| 1:40.8 | Every now and then I'll maybe pace around the office when we're there. |
| 1:42.9 | But when I'm at home, I usually am sitting down, but something about the end of that early |
| 1:46.8 | window, I was, I was gassed up. We got everything you could possibly ask for. Like the, |
| 1:52.3 | the games we highlighted were, we're entertaining, we're good, got some crazy results, some |
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