Week 2 preview: Buccaneers-Lions, Bengals-Chiefs, rethinking preseason takes, Eagles offense breakdown, and more
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🗓️ 13 September 2024
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
Week 2 is one of the best weeks of the year because we get our first opportunity to learn how much of what we saw in Week 1 was real. For instance, the Buccaneers offense was electric last week. That, however, was against a Washington defense that could be the worst in the league. How will the Bucs fare against the Lions on Sunday. That's one of our Games of the Week, along with Bengals-Chiefs. Speaking of, how worried should we be about the Bengals? Robert Mays and Derrik Klassen dig into those games, reconsider some preseason takes, unveil a few new segments and make an argument for you to watch a particular game on Sunday on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Host: Robert Mays
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show, brought to you by Thursday Night Football only on Prime Video. |
| 0:09.4 | I'm Robert Mays, fun show for you guys today. |
| 0:11.9 | It is our week two preview with me and Derek Classen digging into some of the best stuff that is on the table in week two. |
| 0:19.8 | We started with a recap of Thursday Night Football. That's how all of these preview shows are going to start. They're going to be in the podcast. We've not done that in the past. We were doing those mostly on YouTube, but we want you guys to hear those. So each of our weekly preview shows will start with a Thursday night football recap from the previous evening. Some of them will be 20-ish minutes because the game was great. |
| 0:39.4 | Some of it will be 10 minutes because I'm sure there's like a Panthers Saints matchup |
| 0:44.3 | waiting for us in like week 14 that we will treat accordingly. |
| 0:48.5 | We also rolled out some new segments on today's show. |
| 0:52.2 | Just trying out some new stuff as we head into year five of the |
| 0:54.9 | show and some things trying to incorporate some listener feedback we'll get into. We did something |
| 1:00.0 | where we're going to try to convince one another to watch a game that may not seem overly |
| 1:04.3 | exciting each and every week. And this week specifically, this isn't something we're going to do, |
| 1:09.4 | but this is fitting in our minds for a post-week one pre-week2. We're also going to talk about a few of our pre-season takes that we're not feeling so great about right now. A couple uh-ohs that crept up in week one based on some of the takes and some of the conversations that we had in the preseason leading up to the year. So a lot of fun stuff on top for you guys today. |
| 1:28.4 | Let's get to our conversation with Derek. |
| 1:36.3 | All right, Derek, let's dig into this Thursday night football game. |
| 1:39.5 | The bills just run right over the Miami Dolphins in every conceivable way. |
| 1:45.8 | Let's start, though, with the biggest bit of news from this game. |
| 1:48.9 | To we talk about all the leaves with a concussion, obviously his third documented concussion |
| 1:52.4 | over the last three seasons. |
| 1:54.7 | He was healthy for all of last year, but the 2022 season he had the two, missed a huge chunk |
| 1:59.0 | of the year. |
| 2:00.6 | This is frightening. I when you when you have a |
| 2:02.4 | guy who is this level and this number of brain injuries over this period of time obviously there |
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