Week 16 preview: Steelers-Ravens battle for AFC North supremacy at the center of the playoff push
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🗓️ 20 December 2024
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Summary
Broncos-Chargers on Thursday. Steelers-Ravens and Texans-Chiefs on Saturday. Eagles-Commanders on Sunday. The playoff push is on, seeming every single day of the week. Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen preview the jam-packed Week 16 slate on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Rundown
- Chargers-Broncos recap
- Steelers-Ravens preview
- Texans-Chiefs preview
- Eagles run defense vs. Jayden Daniels and the Washington offense
- Can Minnesota's offense keep it rolling in Seattle?
- What do we make of the staffs in Indianapolis and Tennessee?
- Big offseason ahead for Tua Tagovailoa and Brock Purdy
- Micah Parsons vs. the Buccaneers offensive line
- It's Michael Penix Time
Host: Robert Mays
Co-Host: Derrik Klassen
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
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 |
| 0:08.0 | Video. I'm Robert Mays. The week 16 is here. We've got some good ones today. Me and Derek had two |
| 0:14.1 | games of the week. First off, we have the match rematch between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the |
| 0:19.4 | Baltimore Ravens. Obviously, an ugly performance from Baltimore first time around. |
| 0:23.7 | Talked about what Lamar and that offense could potentially do differently against the Steelers. |
| 0:27.7 | Also have the Chiefs and the Texans. |
| 0:30.0 | Two teams in just in weird places right now. |
| 0:32.2 | Two offenses that are way less exciting and then we want them to be. |
| 0:35.0 | We dug into all of that. |
| 0:36.3 | We talked about one thing to watch in the Washington Eagles game and the Vikings Seahawks |
| 0:41.4 | game and just a few more nuggets from the week 16 slate. |
| 0:44.8 | So let's dig into all of that with me and Derek Klesson right now. |
| 0:53.9 | All right, Derek, let's get right into it. |
| 0:55.7 | One heck of a Thursday night football game. |
| 0:58.3 | We had all sorts of stuff tonight. |
| 1:01.0 | I watched this game with my wife. |
| 1:02.8 | She was down there in the living room with me. |
| 1:04.4 | She very rarely watched a full football game with me. |
| 1:07.3 | When the free kick was happening at the end of the half, |
| 1:09.8 | me excitedly trying to explain |
| 1:11.8 | to her how crazy it was. And the fact that we see these like once every five years, there hasn't |
| 1:16.5 | been one made in like 50 years. She was like six inches away from caring. She was like she was |
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