Week 14 recap: Bills-Rams Game of the Year sends us into the final month of the season
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🗓️ 9 December 2024
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Summary
Josh Allen threw three touchdown passes and ran for three more scores on Sunday...and the Bills lost. On the other side of that game, the Rams vaulted themselves right back into the NFC West race. We're staring down a wild final month of the regular season, and it all got started in Week 14. Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen recap the week on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Rundown
- Rams win thriller over Bills
- Seahawks remain atop NFC West
- Patrick Mahomes late-game mastery...You Have My Attention!
- Sam Darnold...You Have My Attention!
- The Buccaneers...You Have My Attention (grudgingly)
- Panthers take another brutal loss
- How worried should we be about the Eagles passing game?
- The Giants' comical red zone numbers
- The race for the top pick in the 2025 draft is on
- Aaron Rodgers' first 300-yard performance in 35 games results in another Jets loss
- The Dolphins sneaky retooling on offense
- Firing Matt Eberflus didn't fix the Bears
- Another Russell Wilson TD pass over the middle of the field
- The Jaguars and Titans bring TNF to Sunday
- What Did We Learn in Week 14?
Host: Robert Mays
Co-Host: Derrik Klassen
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show, brought to you by Thursday Night Football only on |
| 0:08.2 | Prime Video. |
| 0:09.3 | I'm Robert Mays, a great week 14 Sunday slate of games. |
| 0:14.4 | Me and Derek dug into all of it today. |
| 0:16.9 | The Rams Bill's game, very much a contender for the game of the year. |
| 0:20.6 | We talked about every angle of that, a ridiculous Matthew Stafford Day, a ridiculous Josh Allen Day, a perfectly called game. Pooka Nakua being everything you could ever want Pooka Nakuwa to be in an NFL game. Very much enjoyed that one. Chat a little bit about the Mahalms Magic on third down in the late stages of the Chiefs win over the Chargers. |
| 0:38.5 | Discussed a big day for Sam Darnold and the Vikings passing game and a huge win over Atlanta. |
| 0:44.4 | Chat about some tough moments for the Panthers and the Giants in losses today and then, you know, |
| 0:49.0 | hit a few other nuggets from the week 14 slate. |
| 0:51.7 | So let's get to all of that with Derek Klasson right now. |
| 1:00.3 | All right, Derek, a pretty good week 14 Sunday slate here. How you feeling? I'm doing really good. |
| 1:06.2 | I feel like the back half of today's slate really paid us off. I felt like for the most part, |
| 1:11.4 | it was kind of chalky, and then we get an insane Ramsbills game and then an insane Sunday night |
| 1:16.7 | football game. So it ended on a high note, so I can appreciate it. The early slate was not great. |
| 1:21.5 | There was not a lot to write home about. Even the games and the performances that were |
| 1:25.5 | notable were typically in blowout wins, |
| 1:27.9 | but the back half of the day certainly delivered. That included the Sunday night football |
| 1:31.4 | game, which we are going to talk about a little bit later simply because of another |
| 1:34.8 | crazy ending for the Chiefs. But we're going to start this discussion and start our week 14 |
| 1:39.4 | recap with, I think, pretty inarguably the game of the year between the Bills and the Rams. |
| 1:44.8 | This thing had everything you could possibly want. |
| 1:48.1 | Josh Allen becomes the first player in NFL history with three passing touchdowns and |
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