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The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL

Week 16 Hangover: Bills and Texans get necessary, but unconvincing, wins over bad teams

The Athletic Football Show: A show about the NFL

The Athletic

Robert Mays, Sports, Football,, Football, Nfl, Nfl Draft

4.63.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

The Bills and Texans both appear ticketed for the playoffs, but neither exactly covered itself in glory in Week 16 wins over the Browns and Raiders, respectively. So, were those performances cause for concern? Or were they simply late-season, "do-what-we-gotta-do" wins that don't really have much, if any, bearing on their playoff prospects? Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen dig in on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.


Rundown (timestamps are approximate)

5:00 Bills-Browns recap

24:55 Raiders-Texans recap

41:07 Monday Mourning: Todd Bowles and the Buccaneers

49:29 Monday Mourning: Is it all over for the Lions


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Host: Robert Mays

Co-Host: Derrik Klassen

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0:00.0

Welcome to the athletic football show.

0:05.2

I'm Robert Mays.

0:06.1

The Week 16 Hangover with me and Derek Klasin.

0:09.8

Pretty simple.

0:10.4

Dove into two games today,

0:11.4

Bill's Browns and Texans Raiders,

0:13.8

two games in which playoff teams looked not as dominant

0:18.2

or as convincing as they probably should have.

0:20.3

And we talked about why.

0:21.8

On top of that, we dove into a couple of your guys's calls, Monday morning, Lions and the Bucks,

0:27.4

which I think are two teams that are experiencing some pretty similar dread existentially

0:32.8

this year based on how the seasons have gone.

0:34.9

So chewed on that as well.

0:37.2

Let's get to that conversation with me and Derek right now.

0:45.1

It's the week 16 hangover here on the athletic football show.

0:49.2

We got two games that we're going to be hitting today.

0:52.0

We're going to do a little Bill's Browns and a little Texans Raiders. There are a lot of games we could have dove into today, Derek, because we didn't hit a ton of games on the recap show yesterday. When you get into like week 16 or later, it just feels like they're diminishing returns for like doing a deep dive on the Cardinals Falcons game. Yeah, there were so many games here

1:12.1

that like if it was week seven, they would have been perfect hangover material. And then at this

1:17.3

point in the season, it's like, I would rather at least see why a clear contender like the bills

1:22.4

needed only a three point win over the Browns. I think there are a lot of big picture conversations

1:27.2

that are worth

1:28.2

having about pretty much every team in the league as we get to the end of the season, just kind of

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