Week 2 preview: Eagles-Chiefs Super Bowl rematch tops the slate
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🗓️ 12 September 2025
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
Week 2 marks our first real preview episode of the season, and what a helluva week it is. For starters, we've got a Super Bowl LIX rematch between the Eagles and Chiefs. We also get a number of teams or units that surprised us in Week 1—the Jaguars defense and Colts offense to name two—getting much different tests in Week 2. And hey, the internet's favorite quarterbacks, Justin Herbert and Geno Smith, are playing against one another on Monday night. Robert Mays, Derrik Klassen and Dave Helman dig deep into Week 2 on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Rundown (timestamps are approximate)
5:05 Game of the Week: Eagles at Chiefs
30:59 Brock Purdy's injury
36:30 A much tougher test for the Colts offense
43:52 Jets might not be the pushover opponent for the Bills they appeared to be
50:32 Battle of the internet's favorite QBs, Justin Herbert and Geno Smith
57:48 Sicko Street: The Jaguars defense
1:05:34 Sicko Street: The Titans defense
1:13:11 Under the Hood: J.J. McCarthy and the Vikings offense
1:22:12 What Do You Wanna Know: Is the Bucs pass protection without Tristan Wirfs gonna be a problem
1:25:31 What Do You Wanna Know: Cardinals front/defense vs. Panthers run game
1:26:44 What Do You Wanna Know: How scared should I be about the Bears offense
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| 0:35.3 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 0:55.9 | I'm Robert Mays. It is our week two previews today. The week two preview is always a fun show. You feel like you're really getting into the rhythm of the season now. Went back and watched a ton of stuff from week one. I mean, we hit on probably eight to ten different games in this slate and stuff that we're looking for. Weed about the game of the week between the Eagles and the Chiefs. |
| 1:00.6 | One thing from the Colts Broncos game, the Jets Bill's game, and from the Chargers Raiders game. |
| 1:01.8 | Did some sicko deep dives on the Titans defense and the Jags defense on a new segment. |
| 1:07.5 | We're calling Sicko Street this week. |
| 1:10.2 | Also chatted about what we want to know coming out of week two and did a little under |
| 1:15.4 | the hood on J.J. McCarthy and the Vikings offense, a segment that we've done essentially |
| 1:21.3 | since we started doing this show and we will continue to drop back out this year. |
| 1:25.3 | So really enjoyed this conversation with Derek Klaassen and Dave Hellman. |
| 1:29.6 | Let's get to it right now. |
| 1:36.0 | The first preview show of the season, the first real preview show heading into week two, |
| 1:40.7 | that feels like we're back in the swing of things. |
| 1:44.1 | Because the first slate of games, |
| 1:46.0 | you don't have to do anything, right? It just shows up in front of you and then you get to |
| 1:49.8 | watch all of them. And then the first reaction show, we're just kind of like reacting to what we |
| 1:54.0 | saw. This week, Derek, you're finally back in the rhythm of it. You're rewatching games. |
| 1:59.3 | Back to the grind. It's not hard. It's a very fun job, |
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