Welcome to the Athletic Football Show.

I'm Robert Mays.

A very good week 15 slate on tap.

We've got two fantastic games of the week.

I think kind of a thematic through line between these games of the week.

Packers and Broncos, Patriots at Bills.

Patriots and Broncos, two 11-win teams, both home underdogs this week to the Packers and the Bills.

We talked about those games from, I don't know, every angle we could possibly think of, had hit one thing from a few other week 15 matchups.

Chatted about Philip Rivers playing football against the Seahawks this week, which is a real thing that's happening and I still am struggling with how I want to feel about it. But a lot of fun stuff to

get to on this one today with me, Dave Hellman and Derek Klesson. Let's get to it right now.

We have got a jam-packed week 15 preview today.

A lot of fun one-off games, one thing that we're going to dig into a little bit later.

Got a little bit of a take tribunal about the state of the AFC and its quarterbacks this year,

which feel a little bit different.

But we're starting off with two games of the week, two monster games, presented by

BEDMGM. First one here, Bills at Patriots, the Buffalo Bills are one and a half point

favorites on the road in New England. Dave, why is Bill's Patriots a game of the week?

It's a de facto division clenching spot for the New England Patriots, taking the

AFC East from the Buffalo Bills for the first time and forever. It's a chance for, ironically,

since they already beat the bills, like the bills were the Pats measuring stick all the way back

in week five, and they won that game in Orchard Park. And now you get to do it again. Because I think if you're paying

attention to the NFL, you hear the noise about the Patriots strength of schedule and how impressive

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