Week 15 preview: Bills-Lions, a potential Super Bowl preview, highlights a loaded week
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🗓️ 13 December 2024
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Super Bowl LIX is eight weeks from Sunday. Would any of us be surprised if we're talking about the Bills and Lions in New Orleans? Of course not! And that's just one thing that makes their Week 15 matchup so much fun. Bills-Lions highlights a loaded week in which we also get Steelers-Eagles, Packers-Seahawks, Broncos-Colts (the biggest game on the slate in terms of the makeup of the playoff field), Buccaneers-Chargers and Dolphins-Texans. Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen preview the week ahead on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Rundown
- Bills-Lions preview
- Colts-Broncos is a huge game
- Steelers-Eagles is a litmus test for both offenses
- What to watch in Packers-Seahawks
- Buccaneers offense vs. Chargers defense
- What do the Texans look like coming out of their bye?
- Chiefs-Browns...is this the game the Chiefs drop?
- Sam Darnold's future in Minnesota
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 Prime Video. |
| 0:08.6 | I'm Robert Mays. The week 15 preview is here. First bit of housekeeping, we did not do a Thursday |
| 0:14.1 | night football recap this week. It's a good game, important game, but unfortunately, I was on a plane |
| 0:18.3 | for the second half of that game, so it was not able to |
| 0:21.1 | do the Thursday night recap how we typically would. But we got plenty of good stuff coming |
| 0:24.5 | your way this week. A fantastic game of the week that I dug into with Derek Classen, |
| 0:29.6 | The Lions and the Bills. Potential Super Bowl preview does not get much better than that. |
| 0:34.6 | Chatted about a couple other big games on the schedule. The Colts Broncos game, we dug into some of the numbers and how much things could |
| 0:40.5 | potentially swing if the Broncos win this game against Denver. |
| 0:44.1 | You can make an argument it's the most important game on the entire slate. |
| 0:47.3 | Talked about one thing from the Seahawks Packers matchup and one thing from the Eagles |
| 0:53.3 | Steelers matchup, two of the other really, really |
| 0:55.4 | good games on the slate, and then a couple other nuggets from the week 15 schedule of games. |
| 1:00.4 | So let's dig into all of that with Derek right now. |
| 1:08.9 | All right, Derek, let's dig into the game of the week in week 15. |
| 1:13.8 | Really no other place we could go with this. |
| 1:16.0 | Game of the week presented by BetmGM. |
| 1:18.1 | It is the Bills at the Lions. |
| 1:19.9 | Lions are minus two and a half in this game at home. |
| 1:23.6 | It's an even matchup. |
| 1:24.5 | I mean, this is a matchup between arguably the two best teams in the league, |
| 1:28.1 | two of the best five teams, essentially no matter how you're cutting it. It is hard to get better than this at this stage of the season when you're looking for a juicy matchup. Yeah, I mean, this is the team that I have called the best team in the league in the Buffalo Bills. That's right. And the team that a lot of people think is the best team in the week. |
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