Week 2 Preview: Ravens-Bengals, Chiefs-Jaguars, rethinking preseason takes, 'Are You Buying This?' and more
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🗓️ 15 September 2023
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Robert Mays and Nate Tice get you ready for Week 2 on this episode of The Athletic Football Show. The guys consider the Week 1 struggles of some of the league's elite teams, look ahead to Ravens-Bengals and Chiefs-Jaguars, highlight some preseason takes they might already want back, and ask 'Are You Buying This?' about some of what we saw last week. Plus, Matchup of the Week. Tice's Touts, and more.
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| 0:57.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. |
| 1:09.0 | I'm Robert Mays joining me today. |
| 1:10.0 | That's my good friend Nate Tyson. How you doing, buddy? Doing very well. We are, this feels like the first real one. It's the first real Thursday. Absolutely. We actually have some film to go off of, some stuff to talk about, some things to react to. It's very, very nice. But no, I'm doing very well. I promise I actually had something |
| 1:28.8 | to say here outside of just like the little film and just I'm stalling and stalling. |
| 1:33.1 | But I actually did have something when I was taking a shower before the show. But it'll come to me, |
| 1:36.9 | but I'm doing very well. I can't wait to talk about week two. We are going to call this the preview |
| 1:42.2 | show. Just for clarity's sake moving forward. That being said, we're also going to call this the preview show. Just for clarity's sake, moving forward. |
| 1:45.6 | That being said, we're also going to talk about the week that was and all of the stuff |
| 1:50.9 | that we've watched, even if it isn't necessarily attached to a game we're going to be watching |
| 1:55.4 | this weekend. |
| 1:56.4 | So the way that we're going to start these preview shows, this being week two, is we're going |
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| 2:05.6 | the one that's just kind of been sitting there as we've been going back and revisiting |
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